Medicaid outlays for Medicine Services and Procedures total $28,187 in Buckley for 2024

In Buckley, providers billed Medicaid $28,187 in 2024 for services classified under Medicine Services and Procedures, data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows. This represents a 16.6% rise from 2023, when Medicaid claims for these services reached $24,171.

Medicaid is a public health insurance program that is administered by states with joint federal and state funding contributions. The program covers low-income families and individuals, children, seniors, and people with disabilities, making it one of the primary components of the U.S. health care system.

Because taxpayer funding supports Medicaid, fluctuations in local billing indicate how community health dollars are allocated.

The “Medicine Services and Procedures” section includes a group of Medicaid-billed services categorized by care type, based on recognized HCPCS and CPT code groupings. For the analysis, billing codes were assigned to designated service categories using set code prefixes and ranges, helping group related services together and avoid duplicate counts for proper comparison and ranking over time.

Compared with other Medicaid service categories, Medicine Services and Procedures led all others in total Medicaid payments in Buckley for 2024.

Statewide in Washington, Medicine Services and Procedures placed third by Medicaid payment totals in 2024.

Between 2020 and 2024, Medicaid payments for the Medicine Services and Procedures category in Buckley rose by $28,187, or 0%. Some periods showed faster expenditure growth, especially in the years 2022 and 2023, with marked increases from year to year.

Although funding for Medicine Services and Procedures was distributed throughout the city, payments were primarily concentrated within a small number of ZIP codes. The 98321 ZIP code reported the highest Medicaid payments for this category in 2024, representing $28,186. Altogether, the top 1 ZIP code made up 100% of Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures in Buckley during this year.

These Medicaid payments within the Medicine Services and Procedures category were mainly linked to a handful of specific billing codes.

In comparative terms, Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures in Buckley increased 16.6% from 2023 to 2024, while payments across all Medicaid claim categories in the city edged up 0.9% in the same period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined federal and state Medicaid spending stood at roughly $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, contributing about 18% of the nation’s total health expenditures—an increase from $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This uptick reflects nearly 40% growth over several years, attributed principally to expanded enrollment and more frequent utilization during and following the pandemic.

Recent federal budget actions taken during the Trump administration have presented major proposals to cut back federal Medicaid funding and overhaul parts of the program. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is expected to reduce federal Medicaid contributions by over $1 trillion across the next decade and introduce changes like work requirements and higher cost-sharing that may lower coverage and public funding for some recipients. Such policy modifications may push more projected Medicaid costs onto states and slow the pace of future increases in federal assistance, while tens of millions of Americans continue to rely on the program.

Note: HCPCS codes are provided to add context about the category. Article-wide totals and rankings are organized by standardized category groupings, not by the billing codes themselves.

Sourcing for this report comes from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. To access the raw source data, click here.