In 2024, Medicaid providers in Lake Forest Park submitted $472,951 in claims for services included in the Medicine Services and Procedures category, data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database show. This represents a 22.6% rise from 2023, when claims for the same category totaled $385,645.
Medicaid, a public health insurance program administered by the states and funded in partnership by state and federal governments, provides coverage for low-income people, seniors, children and individuals with disabilities, making it a key component of the U.S. health care infrastructure.
Since Medicaid spending is supported by taxpayers, shifts in local billing levels reflect how public resources for health care are spent in a community.
The “Medicine Services and Procedures” category includes a selection of services billed to Medicaid defined by care type, based on established HCPCS and CPT code groupings. For this reporting, individual billing codes were assigned to a single category using consistent code ranges and prefixes to enable combined reporting, prevent double counting and maintain accurate historical rankings.
Although multiple categories saw growth, Medicine Services and Procedures received the highest amount in Medicaid payments in Lake Forest Park for 2024.
Statewide, the Medicine Services and Procedures category ranked third overall by Medicaid payment totals in 2024.
Between 2020 and 2024, Medicaid payments in Lake Forest Park tied to the Medicine Services and Procedures category increased by $189,544, or 66.9%. The pace of spending growth was higher in some years, seeing significant year-over-year increases in 2023 and 2022.
While payments covered care throughout the city, the majority were concentrated in a small number of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 98155 accounted for $472,950 in Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures. This single ZIP represented 100% of the category’s Medicaid payments in Lake Forest Park for the year.
Payments in the Medicine Services and Procedures category were further focused on just a small set of billing codes.
Looking at year-to-year trends, Medicaid payments linked to Medicine Services and Procedures in Lake Forest Park climbed by 22.6% between 2024 and 2023, while payments across all a Medicaid service categories in the city rose by 15.6% during that period.
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, joint state and federal Medicaid expenditures reached about $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, about 18% of total U.S. health spending, compared with $613.5 billion in 2019 before the pandemic.
The increase amounts to roughly 40% growth in a few years, fueled primarily by expanded program enrollment and higher health care utilization during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Recent federal budget actions under the Trump administration have included substantial plans to scale back federal spending on Medicaid and change the program’s structure. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which became law in 2025, is expected to reduce federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion over 10 years with policy changes such as work requirements and greater cost-sharing, which could decrease coverage and funding for some participants. These measures would increase fiscal responsibility for states and cap federal funding growth even as Medicaid continues to serve millions nationally.
| Year | Total Medicaid Payments | % Change From Previous Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $283,406 | 4.8% |
| 2021 | $250,015 | -11.8% |
| 2022 | $291,931 | 16.8% |
| 2023 | $385,644 | 32.1% |
| 2024 | $472,950 | 22.6% |
| Rank | Category | Medicaid Payments | Share of City Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Medicine Services and Procedures | $472,950 | 93.2% |
| 2 | Drugs Administered Other than Oral Method | $34,154 | 6.7% |
| 3 | Pathology and Laboratory Procedures | $302 | 0.1% |
| 4 | Medical And Surgical Supplies | $78 | <0.1% |
| HCPCS Code | Description | Medicaid Payments | Claims |
|---|---|---|---|
| 90999 | Unlisted dialysis procedure | $472,950 | 11 |
| 90673 | Riv3 vaccine no preserv im | $0 | 1 |
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.
