Procedures / Professional Services Medicaid claims total $204 in Honaker for 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Honaker billed a total of $204 for services categorized as Procedures / Professional Services, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This amount reflects a 13.3% increase over 2023, when providers filed $180 in claims for the same category.

Medicaid is a publicly funded health insurance initiative run by individual states with joint funding from federal and state governments. The program serves low-income individuals and families, seniors, children, and people with disabilities, making it a key part of the U.S. health care system.

Local billing variations in Medicaid can indicate shifts in the allocation of taxpayer-funded health care resources within communities.

The “Procedures / Professional Services” designation encompasses a set of Medicaid services determined by specific types of care, grouped by standardized HCPCS and CPT codes. In this analysis, each billing code was placed into a single service category based on prefix and numeric ranges, allowing related services to be grouped together without double counting, which maintains accurate rankings over time.

Though several Medicaid service categories in Honaker experienced higher spending, Procedures / Professional Services ranked sixth for total payments in 2024.

Statewide, this category also held the sixth position for Medicaid payments in Virginia during 2024.

Between 2019 and 2024, Medicaid spending for Procedures / Professional Services in Honaker increased by $204, or 0%. Some years during this period saw faster spending growth, notably in 2023 and 2022 with considerable year-over-year gains.

While Procedures / Professional Services spending occurred throughout Honaker, payments were heavily concentrated in a few ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 24260 accounted for $204 in such payments, representing 100% of the city’s category total that year.

Within this service category, a small number of individual billing codes accounted for the bulk of Medicaid payments.

From 2023 to 2024, Medicaid claims for Procedures / Professional Services in Honaker rose by 13.3%, compared to a 17.7% overall increase across all Medicaid claim types within the city during the same timeframe.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data show that combined federal and state Medicaid spending reached approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, about 18% of all national health care expenditures. This represents a sharp increase from $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This approximately 40% rise was primarily attributed to greater enrollment and increased utilization during and after the pandemic.

Recent federal budget measures passed during the Trump administration included major proposals to reduce federal Medicaid funding and alter program structure. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed in 2025, is expected to reduce federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion over 10 years. The law introduces new measures such as work requirements and additional cost-sharing, which could limit funding and coverage for some beneficiaries. As a result, more costs may shift to state budgets, potentially limiting growth in federal Medicaid support while the program continues to assist tens of millions of people nationwide.

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 is available here.