Colma Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures total $251,081 in 2024, rising 1346.8%

Providers in Colma billed Medicaid for $251,081 in the Medicine Services and Procedures category in 2024, data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database show. This represented a 1346.8% rise compared to 2023, when billings for the same service type totaled $17,354.

Medicaid, operated by states and jointly funded by state and federal governments, serves low-income individuals and families, seniors, children, and people with disabilities, and is a core component of the U.S. health care system. Learn more at this resource.

Because taxpayer dollars finance Medicaid, shifts in local billing levels provide insight into how community health care funds are used.

The Medicine Services and Procedures category covers a set of Medicaid-billed services identified by the nature of care provided, as established by standardized HCPCS and CPT code groupings. This analysis assigned each billing code to a single category based on consistent code prefixes and ranges, ensuring related services could be analyzed together without double-counting and maintaining accurate year-over-year comparisons.

While Medicaid expenditures increased for several service categories, Medicine Services and Procedures held the highest total in Colma for 2024.

Statewide in California, Medicine Services and Procedures ranked third by total Medicaid payments during 2024.

Across the five years preceding 2024, Medicaid payments associated with Medicine Services and Procedures in Colma rose by $251,081, or 0%. Spending growth was especially strong during some years, including significant increases in both 2023 and 2022.

Spending in this category was present citywide but primarily limited to a few ZIP codes. In 2024, the highest amount of Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures occurred in ZIP code 94014, totaling $251,081. That top ZIP code represented 100% of Colma’s total for this category during the year.

Within Medicine Services and Procedures, a small number of individual billing codes concentrated most of the Medicaid payment volume.

For context, between 2024 and 2023, Medicaid payments in Colma’s Medicine Services and Procedures category increased by 1346.8%, a change that matched the percentage reported across all Medicaid claim categories in the city during this period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined federal and state Medicaid expenditures totaled approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, accounting for nearly 18% of national health spending—an increase from about $613.5 billion in 2019, before the pandemic.

This uptick reflects about 40% growth in a few years, largely due to greater enrollment and more frequent use during and after the COVID-19 emergency.

Recent federal budget measures enacted under the Trump administration proposed major changes to Medicaid funding, including significant federal spending reductions and changes to how states receive funding. For example, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed into law in 2025, is projected to cut more than $1 trillion from federal Medicaid support over the next 10 years and implements measures like work requirements and increased cost-sharing, changes that may impact coverage and funding for some Medicaid recipients. These shifts would likely increase the share of Medicaid costs borne by states and could slow the growth of federal support, even though Medicaid continues to cover 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.