Bluffdale’s Medicaid claims for medicine services and procedures reach $1,468,411 in 2024

Data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows that Bluffdale providers billed $1,468,411 to Medicaid in 2024 for services classified under Medicine Services and Procedures. This amount was 224% higher than in 2023, when billings stood at $453,189 for the same category.

Medicaid is a state-operated health insurance program that receives state and federal funding. It provides coverage for low-income individuals and families, seniors, children, and those with disabilities, ranking as one of the nation’s largest health care programs. Funding for the program comes from both federal and state governments.

Taxpayers ultimately support Medicaid, so changes in local billing trends indicate how public health care funding is dispersed throughout each community.

The “Medicine Services and Procedures” group represents a set of Medicaid-billed services based on specified care types, using standardized HCPCS and CPT code groupings. For the purposes of this report, every billing code was matched to one service group by analyzing consistent code prefixes and numbers, ensuring comparative analyses are accurate and that codes are not double-counted.

Medicine Services and Procedures accounted for the highest Medicaid expenditures in Bluffdale among all service categories in 2024 as overall Medicaid spending increased in several areas.

Medicaid claims for Medicine Services and Procedures were the largest of any service category statewide in Utah in 2024.

During the five years before 2024, Medicaid payments in the Medicine Services and Procedures category in Bluffdale increased by $1,468,411, or 0%. Certain time frames saw significant growth, with especially high year-over-year gains noted in 2022 and 2023.

Within Bluffdale, payments related to Medicine Services and Procedures were mainly concentrated in specific ZIP codes. The 84065 ZIP code alone accounted for $1,468,411, which represented all Medicaid billings in this category for 2024. The top ZIP code represented 100% of Medicaid expenditures tied to Medicine Services and Procedures in the city that year.

Billing activity within this service group was geographically concentrated and also focused among a smaller set of procedure codes within the category.

Payments connected to Medicine Services and Procedures grew 224% in Bluffdale between 2024 and 2023, compared to a change of 370.4% across all Medicaid claim types in the same period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, federal and state spending for Medicaid totaled about $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, making up 18% of all national health expenditures and rising significantly from roughly $613.5 billion in 2019, the year before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This change equals an increase of about 40% within a few years, largely due to more people enrolling in Medicaid and greater service use during and after the pandemic.

Recent federal budget bills enacted under the Trump administration proposed major decreases in federal Medicaid funds and program overhaul. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” passed in 2025, is expected to trim more than $1 trillion from federal Medicaid allocations over 10 years and institutes changes such as higher cost-sharing and new work requirements, both of which may restrict beneficiary access and shift more expenses onto states, even as Medicaid continues to aid millions of Americans.

Note: HCPCS codes are listed here for context. Category totals and rankings in this story are calculated using standardized groupings rather than individual billing codes.

This report draws from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. Find the original source data here.