Medicaid Procedures / Professional Services payments jump 32.1% in Bono for 2024

Bono Medicaid providers charged $2,795 for services listed under the Procedures / Professional Services category in 2024, based on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This was a 32.1% rise compared with 2023, when claims for this category totaled $2,116.

Medicaid, a public insurance program operated by states with federal and state funding, covers low-income families and individuals, children, seniors, and people with disabilities. It constitutes one of the largest components of the U.S. health care system. See details from federal and state government information.

Since tax dollars finance Medicaid, local billing shifts indicate how public health care dollars are spent in each area.

The Procedures / Professional Services category includes a range of Medicaid-eligible services, grouped by care type and based on standardized HCPCS and CPT coding. For accuracy, each billing code was assigned to only one service category using consistent code prefixes and range assignments, allowing examination of related services without overlap or double counting and maintaining correct rankings.

Even though Medicaid spending was up across various categories, Procedures / Professional Services was the fourth largest Medicaid payment category in Bono for 2024.

Statewide in Arkansas, Procedures / Professional Services was ranked 16th by total Medicaid payments in 2024.

From five years before 2024 to 2024, Medicaid payments for Procedures / Professional Services in Bono grew by $2,656, or 1910.1%. Some years, including 2021 and 2022, saw particularly strong growth year-over-year.

Spending for Procedures / Professional Services was distributed citywide, but payments were primarily found in a small number of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 72416 led all others, accounting for $2,795 in Medicaid payments for this category and representing 100% of Procedures / Professional Services Medicaid payments in Bono for the year.

Within this care category, Medicaid payments were concentrated in only a handful of unique billing codes.

For further comparison, Medicaid payments in Bono associated with Procedures / Professional Services went up 32.1% between 2024 and 2023, versus a 16.4% overall change across all Medicaid claim categories in the city over that period.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data shows that overall federal and state Medicaid expenditures reached approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, which was about 18% of total national health spending. That’s a significant rise from $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This growth—almost 40% in just several years—primarily reflects rising enrollment and higher use of services during and following the pandemic.

Recent federal budget laws under the Trump administration have introduced major proposals to roll back federal Medicaid spending and change the program’s structure. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” for example, which became law in 2025, is expected to cut more than $1 trillion in federal Medicaid funding over the next decade and includes provisions such as work requirements and higher cost-sharing. Such measures may reduce funding and coverage for some recipients, shifting more costs to states and limiting future federal support as the program still covers 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.