Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures in Saginaw hit $2,335,878 in 2024

In Saginaw, Medicaid providers submitted $2,335,878 in claims for Medicine Services and Procedures in 2024, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represented a 16.7% rise from 2023, when $2,002,431 in claims were filed for this category of service.

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

Because taxpayer dollars fund Medicaid payments, shifts in local billing patterns reflect how resources for public health care are distributed throughout the community.

The “Medicine Services and Procedures” category includes a wide range of Medicaid services, organized based on established HCPCS and CPT code groupings. For this report, each billing code was grouped into a single service category using uniform code prefixes and numeric sequences, ensuring grouped services could be accurately tracked by year without overlap or duplications across categories.

Spending grew across several service categories, but Medicine Services and Procedures was the top Medicaid payment category in Saginaw for 2024.

Across Texas, the Medicine Services and Procedures category placed fifth by overall payment volume in 2024.

Looking at the period from five years before 2024, Saginaw saw Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures increase by $2,159,905, or 1227.4%. Notably, some of the highest year-over-year growth rates were observed in 2021 and 2022.

While Medicaid funding supporting Medicine Services and Procedures reached different parts of the city, the payments were mainly concentrated within a few ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 76179 accounted for $2,335,878—encompassing all Medicaid payments for this category in Saginaw in that year.

Only a limited number of individual billing codes accounted for most Medicaid payments within the Medicine Services and Procedures category.

Between 2024 and 2023, Medicaid payments in Saginaw linked to Medicine Services and Procedures climbed by 16.7%, compared to a 12.3% increase seen across all Medicaid claim types in the area during the same span.

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

This jump equates to an increase of about 40% over just a few years, much of which is attributed to rising enrollment and higher usage rates during and after the pandemic.

Recent federal budget bills enacted during the Trump administration have brought forward substantial proposals to scale down federal funding for Medicaid and reshape its structure. For example, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed into law in 2025, is expected to reduce federal Medicaid spending by over $1 trillion within the next decade while adding new requirements such as work mandates and increased cost-sharing, potentially limiting funding and coverage for certain participants. As a result, states may bear more of the cost burden, despite Medicaid’s continued role supporting 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.