Benbrook sees 3.6% rise in Medicaid payments for alcohol and drug abuse treatment, totaling $6,615,600 in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Benbrook billed $6,615,600 for services categorized under Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This amount represented a 3.6% increase from 2023, when the total reached $6,383,964 for these services.

Medicaid is a government health insurance program administered by the states and funded in partnership by federal and state governments. It serves low-income families and individuals, seniors, children, and people with disabilities, making it a major component of the U.S. health care system.

Because Medicaid is taxpayer-funded, shifts in local billing patterns indicate how funds for public health care are distributed within a community.

The “Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment” designation covers a subset of Medicaid-billed services defined by care type, identified using established HCPCS and CPT billing code groupings. This analysis assigned each billing code to one service category based on standard code prefixes and numeric sequences, ensuring accurate aggregation and trend analysis without double counting.

Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment recorded the highest Medicaid payment total of any service category in Benbrook for 2024, surpassing all others.

Statewide in Texas, the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment category stood as the fourth largest by total Medicaid payments in 2024.

Across the five years preceding 2024, Medicaid payments related to Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment in Benbrook increased by $6,615,600, or 0%. Certain periods saw accelerated growth, with marked year-over-year rises in both 2023 and 2022.

Although Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment services were available throughout Benbrook, the majority of Medicaid payments in 2024 originated from only a few ZIP codes. ZIP code 76116 accounted for the full $6,615,600 in Medicaid payments for these services, representing 100% of the local total that year.

Medicaid spending within the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment category was mostly limited to a small group of billing codes.

For context, Medicaid payments for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment in Benbrook grew by 3.6% from 2023 to 2024, whereas all Medicaid claims in the city increased by 8.2% over the same span.

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

This represents a growth of about 40% in just a few years, attributed primarily to expanded enrollment and greater utilization during and after the pandemic years.

Recent federal budget measures under the Trump administration have included significant plans to curtail federal Medicaid funding and redesign its structure. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed into law in 2025, is expected to reduce federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion over the coming decade. The legislation enacts new policies such as work requirements and higher cost-sharing, which may reduce coverage and payments for certain beneficiaries. As a result, states are anticipated to bear increased costs, and the growth of federal Medicaid support could be limited, even as the program continues to serve 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.