Brownville Medicaid spending for Medicine Services and Procedures reaches $552 in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Brownville billed $552 for services grouped under the Medicine Services and Procedures category, as shown in data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This amount reflected a 607.7% increase over 2023, when $78 in claims were submitted for this service type.

Medicaid, a public health insurance program overseen by the states and financed by both federal and state governments, provides coverage to low-income residents, seniors, children, and people with disabilities, making it one of the nation’s largest health care components. More information is available here.

With Medicaid funding derived from taxpayers, shifts in local billing illuminate how public funds for health care are being distributed in a community.

The Medicine Services and Procedures category covers a group of Medicaid-billed services identified by the kind of care delivered, using set HCPCS and CPT code groupings. For this reporting, each billing code was placed into a single service category based on consistent code prefixes and numbering to facilitate comparisons and avoid duplicated counts, maintaining accuracy in rankings through time.

While Medicaid outlays climbed across multiple service types, Medicine Services and Procedures was the fourth-highest category by total Medicaid payments in Brownville for 2024.

Statewide, Maine ranked the Medicine Services and Procedures category sixth in terms of total Medicaid payments that year.

Over the five-year span leading up to 2024, payments for Medicine Services and Procedures in Brownville rose by $552, or 0%. Payment growth accelerated at several intervals, with significant year-over-year increases noted during 2023 and 2022.

Although spending related to Medicine Services and Procedures was distributed throughout the city, the highest payments were found in a select few ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 04414 accounted for $552, representing all Medicaid payments in this category for Brownville that year. Overall, the top 1 ZIP codes made up 100.1% of payments tied to this service group in the city during the year.

Within the category, Medicaid payments were heavily concentrated among a small number of billing codes.

By comparison, Medicine Services and Procedures Medicaid payments in Brownville rose 607.7% between 2024 and 2023, while all Medicaid claim categories together grew by 26.3% during the same timeframe.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data show combined federal and state Medicaid spending reached about $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023—roughly 18% of total national health expenditures and up sharply from $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This increase amounts to about 40% growth over a few years, primarily due to expanded enrollment and greater health care utilization during and after the pandemic.

New federal budget measures adopted during the Trump administration included major proposals to trim federal Medicaid funding and alter the program’s structure. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is projected to reduce federal Medicaid outlays by more than $1 trillion over the next decade, adding work requirements and raising cost-sharing. These changes could reduce coverage for some beneficiaries and are expected to shift more funding responsibility to states, potentially slowing the growth of federal support even as Medicaid continues to serve tens of millions of people.

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.