Ravenna sees 67.9% jump in Medicaid payments for medicine services, procedures in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Ravenna billed $1,998 for care categorized under Medicine Services and Procedures, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represented a 67.9% rise from 2023, when $1,190 in claims were submitted for this same service category.

Medicaid is a public health insurance program administered by the states and jointly funded by federal and state governments. The program serves low-income individuals and families, seniors, children and people with disabilities, making it a major segment of the U.S. health care system.

Since Medicaid payments are funded by taxpayers, fluctuations in local billing highlight how community health care dollars are distributed.

The “Medicine Services and Procedures” category groups certain Medicaid-billed services by the nature of care provided, according to standardized HCPCS and CPT coding ranges. For this report, each billing code was assigned to a single category through consistent code prefixes and number ranges, allowing for analysis of related services without duplication and maintaining reliable rankings over time.

While Medicaid spending increased in several service categories, Medicine Services and Procedures placed fourth in Ravenna for total Medicaid payments in 2024.

Across Michigan, Medicine Services and Procedures also ranked fourth for Medicaid payment totals in 2024.

During the five years leading up to 2024, Medicaid payments in Ravenna for the Medicine Services and Procedures category grew by $1,998, or 0%. Growth was more pronounced in certain years, with consecutive year-over-year increases seen in 2023 and 2022.

Although care spending in the Medicine Services and Procedures category was spread across Ravenna, payment volume was heavily concentrated in just a few ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 49451 accounted for $1,998, making up 100% of Medicaid payments for this category in the city that year.

Most Medicaid payments within the Medicine Services and Procedures category were concentrated in a small set of individual billing codes.

Comparing years, Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures in Ravenna grew by 67.9% from 2023 to 2024, whereas all Medicaid claim categories combined rose by 44.4% within the city over that same period.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data shows that state and federal Medicaid spending reached about $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, making up roughly 18% of total U.S. health expenditures. This was a sharp rise from $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The rise marks an increase of about 40% in just a few years, mainly due to expanded enrollment and greater service utilization during and after the pandemic.

Recent federal budgets enacted during the Trump administration have brought forward proposals to trim federal Medicaid support and alter program structures. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed into law in 2025, is projected to cut more than $1 trillion in federal Medicaid funding over 10 years, and contains changes such as work requirements and increased cost-sharing, potentially reducing funding and coverage for some recipients. These provisions are expected to shift a greater share of Medicaid funding responsibilities to states and limit growth in federal support, even as the program provides coverage to tens of millions nationwide.

Note: HCPCS codes are included for category context. Totals and rankings in this article are based on standardized groupings instead of individual codes.

Data for this article comes from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. The full source is available here.