Broomall Medicaid payments for medicine services hit $14.2 million in 2024, up 45.6%

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Broomall billed a total of $14,170,462 for services within the Medicine Services and Procedures category, as reported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This amount signifies a 45.6% rise from 2023, when $9,730,906 in claims were submitted for these services.

Medicaid, which is administered by states with joint federal and state funding, insures low-income people, families, children, seniors, and those with disabilities, making it one of the key components of the U.S. health system. More details are available from the Commonwealth Fund.

Because taxpayer dollars fund Medicaid, changing billing levels at the local level highlight how health care funding is distributed in communities.

The “Medicine Services and Procedures” category groups together Medicaid-billed care defined by similar HCPCS and CPT codes. Billing codes were assigned to this category based on established code formats, which avoided duplicate counting and allowed for accurate year-to-year and category comparisons.

Medicine Services and Procedures had the highest Medicaid spending among all categories in Broomall in 2024.

Statewide in Pennsylvania, Medicine Services and Procedures was the third largest Medicaid payment category.

Over the five years to 2024, Medicine Services and Procedures-related Medicaid payments in Broomall grew by $12,683,310, amounting to an 852.9% increase, with the sharpest rises observed in 2020 and 2021.

Spending for Medicine Services and Procedures was spread throughout Broomall but largely concentrated in specific ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 19008 alone accounted for $14,170,462, making up all Medicaid payments in the category for Broomall that year.

Just a few individual billing codes within the Medicine Services and Procedures category made up the majority of the Medicaid payments.

Comparing years, Medicaid payments tied to this category in Broomall saw a 45.6% increase from 2023 to 2024, while all citywide Medicaid claims rose 10.2% in the same period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, total Medicaid spending by state and federal governments was about $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023. That represented around 18% of all U.S. health expenditures, jumping from $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

That means an increase of close to 40% over a short period, mainly due to rising enrollment and greater service use during and following the pandemic.

Recently enacted federal budget measures under the Trump administration have included major proposals to reduce Medicaid’s federal funding and change its structure. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed into law in 2025, is expected to cut federal Medicaid spending by over $1 trillion over the coming decade and introduces policies such as work requirements and increased cost-sharing for some recipients. These provisions are anticipated to shift more financial responsibility to states and limit federal funding growth, despite Medicaid’s critical role covering millions of Americans.

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.