Baileyton Medicaid claims for COVID-19 services total at least $567 in 2024

At least $567 in Medicaid payments were made in Baileyton in 2024 for services using HCPCS codes tied specifically to COVID-19, figures from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database show.

Medicaid is a government-operated health insurance program funded in partnership by federal and state governments. It provides coverage for low-income people, families, children, seniors, and those with disabilities, making it a key segment of the U.S. health care landscape.

Since Medicaid payments use public money, trends in local billing rates reflect how community health care funding is distributed.

This analysis identified COVID-19–related care by selecting HCPCS codes labeled or categorized as “COVID-19” or “coronavirus”-related based on billing records or reference materials. Therefore, the reported figures include only those services that are directly labeled as COVID-related in billing, not broader health care potentially linked to the pandemic under other code descriptions.

Birmingham reported Alabama’s highest Medicaid total for COVID-19–related services in 2024, with $1,029,178 in virus-specific claims.

Records indicate that in Baileyton, only Daily Medical, LLC billed Medicaid for COVID-19–related services during 2024.

Pandemic-related services made up only a small portion of Medicaid spending growth in Baileyton as the pandemic progressed.

Overall, Medicaid spending in all other service categories rose by $21,369 from 2020 to 2024, or an increase of 52.8%.

In the two years leading up to the pandemic, Baileyton’s average annual Medicaid payments were $2,884.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports that federal and state Medicaid expenditures were at roughly $871.7 billion during the 2023 fiscal year, which is about 18% of all U.S. health care spending. This marks a steep rise from a total of $613.5 billion in 2019, pre-pandemic.

The difference reflects nearly 40% growth over a few years, attributed largely to expanded enrollment and more frequent use of services during and after the pandemic phases.

Recent federal budget policy during the Trump administration brought several proposals intended to cut federal funding to Medicaid and reshape the program. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is estimated to reduce federal Medicaid outlays by more than $1 trillion in the next 10 years, adding provisions like work requirements and greater cost-sharing. Such changes could narrow both funding and coverage, shifting additional costs to states though the program will still cover tens of millions of Americans.

Note: Includes HCPCS codes explicitly labeled for COVID-19 services; totals do not represent all pandemic-related health care spending.

The information in this article comes from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. Access the source data here.