Meyersdale Medicaid spending on state agency codes totals $96,089 in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Meyersdale billed $96,089 for services grouped under the National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies, as shown by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This amount reflects a 2% rise compared with 2023, when $94,249 was claimed for similar services.

Medicaid is a public health insurance program managed by states and funded collectively by federal and state governments. The program covers low-income households, seniors, children, and people with disabilities, making it a significant component of the U.S. health care system.

Because Medicaid expenditures come from public funds, shifts in local billing can indicate how health care resources are utilized within the community.

The “National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies” category represents a range of Medicaid-billed services as defined by standardized HCPCS and CPT code collections. In this analysis, each billing code matched a single service category using consistent code formats and numerical groupings, which allowed the clustering of related services without duplicating or skewing rankings over time.

Medicaid spending increased in multiple areas, but National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies had the highest total in Meyersdale for Medicaid payments in 2024.

On a statewide basis, this category ranked second by total Medicaid payments in Pennsylvania in 2024.

Looking back five years prior to 2024, Medicaid payments for Meyersdale in this category rose by $47,568, an increase of 98%. Growth in spending was particularly strong during select periods, especially in 2021 and 2020.

Within Meyersdale, National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies payments were mainly concentrated in a few ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 15552 accounted for $96,088 in Medicaid claims, representing 100% of category payments locally that year.

Inside the category, most Medicaid payments were grouped under a limited set of individual billing codes.

For perspective, Medicaid spending in Meyersdale on this category went up 2% from 2023 to 2024, while overall Medicaid claim categories in the city rose by 4.8% for the same period.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported that combined federal and state Medicaid outlays reached about $871.7 billion for fiscal year 2023, or about 18% of all national health spending, a significant jump from roughly $613.5 billion in 2019, before the pandemic.

This represents a nearly 40% increase over several years, driven mainly by greater enrollment and increased service use during and following the pandemic.

Recent federal budget measures under the Trump administration included major proposals to reduce federal Medicaid allocations and alter the program. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed into law in 2025, is forecast to reduce federal Medicaid funding by more than $1 trillion over 10 years and bring in policies such as work requirements and higher cost-sharing. These changes could result in lower coverage and less funding for certain beneficiaries, shifting more financial responsibility to states and slowing federal Medicaid growth, while the program continues to serve tens of millions nationwide.

Note: HCPCS codes are provided for reference within the category. Article totals and rankings are based on groupings of standardized services, not individual billing codes.

The details in this article come from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. Source data is available here.