Medicaid spending on Procedures / Professional Services climbs 36.9% in White Marsh in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in White Marsh submitted $225,775 in claims for services under the Procedures / Professional Services category, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This was a 36.9% increase from 2023, when billings reached $164,949 for the same category.

Medicaid is a publicly funded health insurance program administered by the states and financed through federal and state dollars. It provides coverage for low-income families and individuals, seniors, children, and people with disabilities, making it one of the largest entities in the U.S. health care system.

Since Medicaid is funded by the public, spending trends in local billing help show how health care resources are distributed in a given area.

The “Procedures / Professional Services” grouping encompasses a range of Medicaid-billed services, classified by type using standardized HCPCS and CPT code clusters. Analysts assigned each billing code to a unique service category based on consistent code prefixes and number ranges, letting related services be tracked collectively and preventing double counting to maintain accurate annual rankings.

Although Medicaid expenses grew across several types of care, Procedures / Professional Services ranked as the fourth-highest category for total Medicaid payments in White Marsh in 2024.

Across Maryland as a whole, Procedures / Professional Services was the eighth-ranked category by overall payments to Medicaid providers in 2024.

From 2019 through 2024, Medicaid payments linked to the Procedures / Professional Services category grew by $225,775 in White Marsh, with the rate of spending rising faster in certain intervals and marked year-over-year increases observed in 2023 and 2022.

Even though spending under Procedures / Professional Services took place throughout the city, payment volume was focused in relatively few ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 21162 posted the highest Medicaid payments in this area, netting $225,775. That made up 100% of total Medicaid spending tied to Procedures / Professional Services in White Marsh for the year.

Within the Procedures / Professional Services category itself, Medicaid spending was heavily concentrated among a select set of individual billing codes.

To compare, Medicaid payments for Procedures / Professional Services in White Marsh increased by 36.9% between 2024 and 2023, while overall Medicaid claims in all categories citywide rose 2.5% during the same timeframe.

Data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shows combined federal and state Medicaid costs reached around $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, representing about 18% of all U.S. health outlays. That’s up sharply from $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This escalation amounts to roughly 40% growth in just a few years, with expanded enrollment and increased utilization during and after the pandemic accounting for much of the rise.

Major federal budget legislation during the Trump administration set forth sizable proposals to curb federal Medicaid spending and alter the program’s structure. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed in 2025, aims to cut over $1 trillion from Medicaid over a decade, with provisions like work requirements and greater cost-sharing that may reduce both coverage and funding for certain enrollees. As a result, more costs could shift to states and federal support may grow more slowly, even as Medicaid continues to serve tens of 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.