Wendover Medicaid spending for medicine services and procedures hits $17,230 in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Wendover charged $17,230 for services classified under the Medicine Services and Procedures category, based on data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. That amount marked an increase of 5.4% from 2023, when claims for this service category totaled $16,341.

Medicaid is a public health insurance program managed by the states with funding from both federal and state governments. It covers individuals and families with low incomes, as well as seniors, children, and people with disabilities, making it a major element of the U.S. health care system. For further details, see this source.

Since Medicaid funding is provided by taxpayers, shifts in billing at the local level reflect how public dollars for health care are used within each community.

The “Medicine Services and Procedures” category consists of a selection of Medicaid-billed services defined by the care type, organized using consistent HCPCS and CPT code groupings. This analysis assigned each billing code to a designated service category using prefixes and standard numeric ranges, grouping similar services to ensure no double counting and accurate ranking over time.

Spending rose in multiple Medicaid service categories, with Medicine Services and Procedures finishing second for Medicaid payments in Wendover during 2024.

Statewide in Utah, Medicine Services and Procedures was the leading category for Medicaid payments in 2024.

In Wendover, Medicaid spending in this category climbed by $3,726, or 27.6%, across the five years ending in 2024. Growth accelerated during certain intervals, particularly with notable annual increases in 2021 and 2020.

Although expenditures supported care throughout the city, most Medicaid payments in this category were focused within a small number of ZIP codes. For 2024, payments linked to the Medicine Services and Procedures category were concentrated in ZIP code 84083, totaling $17,230. This ZIP code alone represented 100% of local Medicaid payments for the category in that year.

Most Medicaid payments in the Medicine Services and Procedures category were also grouped among a few specific billing codes.

To compare, Wendover’s Medicaid payments for this service category rose 5.4% between 2024 and 2023, while all Medicaid claim categories in the city increased by 20.4% in the same timeframe.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, total federal and state Medicaid spending reached approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, accounting for about 18% of total national health expenditures—an increase from $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This rise amounts to roughly 40% over several years, driven primarily by higher enrollment and increased utilization during and after the pandemic.

Recent federal budget laws during the Trump administration have put forward major proposals to reduce federal Medicaid funding and adjust the program’s structure. As one example, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is set to reduce federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion over 10 years, while implementing policies like work requirements and higher cost-sharing. These changes are expected to shift more financial responsibility to states and slow the growth of federal support, even as Medicaid continues to serve millions 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 can be found here.