Medicaid paid $5,053 for COVID-19 services in Greenwood in 2024

Greenwood recorded at least $5,053 in Medicaid payments in 2024 for services billed with HCPCS codes linked specifically to COVID-19, based on data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database.

Medicaid, funded by both the states and the federal government, covers low-income residents, families, seniors, children, and people with disabilities, making it a central component of the U.S. health care system. More information is available at the Commonwealth Fund.

Given that Medicaid is taxpayer funded, shifts in local billing indicate where a community’s public dollar resources are used within health care.

This reporting analyzed COVID-19–specific services using HCPCS codes identified as “COVID-19” or “coronavirus” in relevant billing labels. Thus, these totals include only medically coded and clearly labeled COVID-related claims; pandemic care processed under other or broader codes would not be included here.

By comparison, Columbia led all South Carolina locales in Medicaid claims for COVID-19 services in 2024 with $1,102,671 in related payments.

When it comes to the per-provider average, Greenwood Medicaid providers billed $2,526 for COVID-19 services—well below the state’s $37,377 average.

COVID-19–specific accounts notably drove Medicaid expenditure increases in Greenwood during the pandemic years.

Medicaid payments for claims other than those tied specifically to the virus rose by $11,101,999 between 2020 and 2024, adding up to a 38.9% rise in that period.

The average annual amount paid out through Medicaid in Greenwood reached $26,991,899 in each of the two years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic’s onset.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports that federal and state Medicaid spending rose to about $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, now about 18% of total national health expenditures—a steep climb from $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 crisis.

This jump, approaching 40% in just a few years, was driven primarily by an increase in enrollment as well as greater service utilization during and following the coronavirus pandemic.

Recent national budget action under the Trump administration included major changes reducing overall federal Medicaid spending and restructuring key program elements. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which became law in 2025, is set to decrease federal Medicaid contributions by more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years and enacts provisions like higher cost-sharing and work requirements that could impact benefits and funding for some Medicaid recipients. These measures are expected to increase states’ share of Medicaid costs while limiting federal program growth, even as Medicaid remains a source of coverage for 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.

Information for this report is sourced from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. Original data can be viewed here.