Lodi Medicaid claims for COVID-19 services totaled $121,195 in 2024

Lodi recorded $121,195 in Medicaid payments for services designated by HCPCS codes as expressly tied to COVID-19 care in 2024, according to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database.

Medicaid is a publicly funded health insurance program, administered by the states and financed with joint federal and state funds. The program serves low-income people, families, children, seniors and individuals with disabilities and is a major component of the U.S. health system.

Shifts in local Medicaid billing reveal community-level changes in how taxpayer dollars for public health care are spent.

For this analysis, COVID-19–related claims were flagged using HCPCS codes tagged as “COVID-19” or “coronavirus” in billed service descriptions or supporting data. These totals therefore only include services distinctly marked as COVID-19 care, and omit any pandemic-related health services that may have been billed under broader or unrelated codes.

By comparison, San Jose recorded the state’s highest amount of Medicaid reimbursements linked to COVID-19 care in 2024, with $5,601,479 billed for virus-related services.

Three individual Medicaid providers in Lodi billed for COVID-19–related services in 2024. Of the codes claimed, COVID Specific made up the bulk at $120,619.

To provide context, the average Medicaid payment per provider tied to COVID-19 care in Lodi was $40,398, which is below California’s state average of $52,976.

COVID-19–labeled services were responsible for a notable share of the growth in Medicaid spending in Lodi during the pandemic years.

Total Medicaid spending across non-COVID claim categories rose by $12,169,787 from 2020 to 2024, equating to an increase of 61.4%.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, total federal and state Medicaid expenditures climbed to about $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023—roughly 18% of all national health costs—and increased sharply from about $613.5 billion in 2019 prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 40% jump over this period was largely due to increased enrollment and greater health care use during and after the pandemic.

Recently enacted federal budget measures under the Trump administration proposed substantial Medicaid funding cuts and shifted the program’s structure. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”, passed in 2025, is expected to reduce federal Medicaid support by more than $1 trillion over the coming 10 years and adds policies—such as work requirements and higher out-of-pocket costs—that could decrease coverage for certain enrollees. These reforms are set to adjust cost sharing between states and the federal government even as Medicaid continues to service tens of millions nationally.

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

All information for this report comes from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. The original dataset is available here.