Cornell Medicaid spending on medicine services reaches $30,334 in 2024

Cornell’s Medicaid providers submitted $30,334 in claims for services under the Medicine Services and Procedures category in 2024, drawing on data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This amount was a 24.1% rise from 2023, when providers billed $24,449 for the same services.

Medicaid, a state-operated health insurance program that receives funding from both federal and state governments, covers low-income people, seniors, children, and those with disabilities. It is one of the largest segments of health care in the United States.

Fluctuations in Medicaid billing at the local level reflect how taxpayer-supplied public health funds are distributed within a community.

The “Medicine Services and Procedures” group refers to a Medicaid billing category organized by care type, using standard HCPCS and CPT code groupings. Each billing code in this analysis was placed in a single service category based on prefixes and numerical groupings for consistency, which helped track similar services together, avoid duplication, and maintain consistent rankings over time.

While Medicaid expenditures increased in several service types, Medicine Services and Procedures came in second for total Medicaid payments in Cornell for 2024.

Statewide in Wisconsin, Medicine Services and Procedures stood in fifth position by payment total in 2024.

From 2019 to 2024, Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures in Cornell rose by $22,537, or 289.1%. Some years, notably 2022 and 2020, saw especially sharp increases from one year to the next.

Payments for Medicine Services and Procedures in 2024 were made throughout Cornell, but were primarily concentrated in just a few ZIP codes. The 54732 ZIP code alone reported $30,334, representing 100% of the city’s Medicaid payments for this category during 2024.

Medicaid billing in the Medicine Services and Procedures category was also concentrated within a small number of specific service codes.

Medicaid bills for Medicine Services and Procedures in Cornell increased 24.1% from 2023 to 2024. Over the same period, all Medicaid categories in within the city saw a 3.2% change.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined Medicaid spending from both federal and state funds totaled around $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, making up approximately 18% of national health expenditures, a sharp rise from $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This surge marks a roughly 40% increase in a few years, largely attributed to higher enrollment numbers and increased care utilization during and after the pandemic.

Recent changes to the federal budget passed under the Trump administration proposed reductions to the federal Medicaid allocation and shifts in the program. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is projected to slash more than $1 trillion in federal Medicaid costs over 10 years and introduce work requirements and increased cost-sharing, potentially decreasing funding and coverage for certain recipients. As a result, states may see greater funding responsibility while the program continues to cover millions of Americans.

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.