Jonesboro Medicaid claims for Medicine Services and Procedures grow to $300,256 in 2024

Jonesboro’s Medicaid providers billed $300,256 in 2024 for services within the Medicine Services and Procedures category, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This total reflects a 6.5% increase compared with 2023, when providers submitted $281,842 in claims for these services.

Medicaid, administered by states with joint state and federal funding, provides health insurance for low-income families, children, seniors and individuals with disabilities. As one of the largest components of the U.S. health care system, it plays a central role in providing medical coverage.

Since Medicaid expenditures are publicly funded, shifts in local billing highlight changing patterns in how public health dollars are spent in the community.

The “Medicine Services and Procedures” category aggregates Medicaid-billed care types determined by standardized HCPCS and CPT code groups. Each billing code was classified into a designated service group for this article, using consistent code prefixes and number ranges to avoid double counting and track trends over time.

While Medicaid spending increased in several categories, Medicine Services and Procedures ranked fifth for total Medicaid payments in Jonesboro during 2024.

Across Louisiana, the Medicine Services and Procedures group was sixth in statewide Medicaid payments for 2024.

Between 2019 and 2024, Jonesboro’s Medicaid payments in this category rose by $132,770, or 30.7%. The pace of spending growth was especially pronounced in 2021 and 2022, with substantial year-over-year gains.

Spending in the Medicine Services and Procedures category was distributed across the city, but payments concentrated in specific ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 71251 represented the entirety of Medicaid payments in this category, totaling $300,256. As a result, this single ZIP code accounted for 100% of related Medicaid spending in Jonesboro.

Additionally, just a handful of billing codes within the Medicine Services and Procedures category captured the bulk of Medicaid payments.

In Jonesboro, Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures grew by 6.5% from 2023 to 2024, whereas overall Medicaid claim categories in the city saw a 23.4% change during that time.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined state and federal Medicaid payments reached about $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, or roughly 18% of national health expenditures, up significantly from approximately $613.5 billion in 2019 before the pandemic.

This jump equals a growth rate of around 40% in just a few years, mainly due to increased enrollment and utilization during and after the pandemic.

Recent federal budget actions under the Trump administration have proposed major reductions to federal Medicaid funding as well as program changes. Notably, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed in 2025, is projected to cut more than $1 trillion from Medicaid over the coming decade and includes measures such as work requirements and greater cost-sharing that may decrease coverage and federal funding for some groups. These changes are expected to shift more costs to states while reducing growth in federal Medicaid spending as the program continues to serve tens of millions.

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.