Medicaid spending tied to National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies up 10.6% in Mineral Point for 2024

In 2024, Mineral Point Medicaid providers billed $932,150 for services categorized under the National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows. This total represents a 10.6% increase over 2023, when $842,524 in claims were submitted for the same service type.

Medicaid is a public insurance program run at the state level and financed by both federal and state governments. It provides coverage for low-income individuals and families, seniors, children, and people with disabilities, making it one of the largest segments of the national health system.

Since Medicaid is taxpayer-funded, shifts in local claim amounts reflect how community health care funds are used.

The National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies category includes services grouped by type of care, organized using standard HCPCS and CPT code ranges. For these statistics, each billing code is assigned to a single service category based on its code prefixes and numbers. This approach allows related services to be consistently tracked while maintaining accurate historical rankings and avoiding duplicate counts.

In Mineral Point, National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies was the leading category in 2024 for total Medicaid reimbursements across all listed categories.

At the state level in Missouri, this same category topped the list for total Medicaid payments in 2024.

Analyzing trends from five years prior to 2024, Medicaid payments linked to National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies rose by $390,182, up 72%. Several periods saw particularly strong year-over-year growth, especially in 2020 and 2022.

Citywide, while this services category received funding throughout Mineral Point, most of the Medicaid billing was focused in a handful of ZIP codes. For 2024, ZIP code 63660 accounted for $932,150, amounting to 100% of all Medicaid payments for this category in the city.

The concentration extended within the category as well, with a few individual billing codes making up most Medicaid payment totals.

From 2023 to 2024, National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies in Mineral Point saw Medicaid payments climb 10.6%, compared to an 18.9% increase among all Medicaid service categories during the same period in the city.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined federal and state Medicaid expenditure totaled about $871.7 billion during fiscal 2023, representing roughly 18% of overall national health care spending—a jump from $613.5 billion in 2019 prior to the COVID-19 emergency.

This rise equals nearly 40% growth in a few years, largely due to expanded coverage and increased usage during and following the pandemic.

Recent legislation on the federal budget under the Trump administration introduced proposals to decrease Medicaid funding and modify the program. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is estimated to reduce federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion over the next ten years and implements measures including work requirements and greater cost-sharing. These changes could decrease coverage and funding for some recipients and are expected to shift more expenses to states, restricting federal Medicaid growth even as millions of Americans continue to use the program.

Note: HCPCS codes are shown for context within the category. Category totals and rankings in this article are based on standardized service groupings rather than individual billing codes.

Information in this article was obtained from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. The source data can be found here.