Kimball’s Medicaid spending for Medicine Services and Procedures climbs to $63,356 in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Kimball billed $63,356 for services categorized as Medicine Services and Procedures, based on figures from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represented a 9.1% increase over 2023, when providers billed $58,049 for the same category of services.

Medicaid is a government-backed health insurance program managed by individual states and financed through federal and state contributions. It serves low-income households, older adults, children, and those with disabilities, remaining among the largest elements of the U.S. health care system.

Because taxpayer dollars fund Medicaid, variations in local provider billings help track how public funds are distributed for health care at the community level.

The “Medicine Services and Procedures” grouping refers to Medicaid-billed services identified by the care type, using standardized HCPCS and CPT code systems. For purposes of this report, each code is matched to one overarching service class via consistent numeric intervals and code prefixes, enabling a review of similar services together and ensuring category totals aren’t duplicated and rankings remain reliable across periods.

While Medicaid expenditures rose in several service groups, Medicine Services and Procedures brought in the highest Medicaid reimbursements in Kimball for 2024.

Statewide in Tennessee, Medicine Services and Procedures placed fifth for total Medicaid payments in 2024.

From 2020 to 2024, Medicaid reimbursements linked to Medicine Services and Procedures in Kimball increased by $38,255, or 152.4%. Growth rates accelerated at points, including significant jumps in both 2021 and 2022.

Spending for Medicine Services and Procedures was present citywide, but the majority was drawn from only a few ZIP codes. The ZIP code 37347 led with $63,355 billed, amounting to 100% of Kimball’s total Medicaid disbursements for this category in 2024.

Most Medicaid funds in this care category were further concentrated in just a handful of distinctive billing codes.

Comparatively, Kimball’s Medicaid dollar total for Medicine Services and Procedures increased 9.1% from 2023 to 2024; the city’s overall Medicaid billing categories saw a 10% change in this timeframe.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined state and federal Medicaid expenditures totaled nearly $871.7 billion in the 2023 fiscal year, about 18% of all national health spending. That’s up considerably from about $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This increase equates to roughly 40% growth over a few years, propelled in part by greater enrollment and heightened medical service usage throughout and after the pandemic period.

Broad budget measures enacted during the Trump administration have included planned reductions to federal Medicaid support and substantial structural revisions. One recent example, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” went into law in 2025 and is forecast to trim over $1 trillion in federal Medicaid outlays over 10 years. The law introduces such policies as work requirements and higher patient cost sharing, which could decrease benefits and funding for particular Medicaid participants. States are likely to assume more cost responsibility while federal Medicaid spending growth remains constrained, though the program remains critical for tens of 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.