Medicaid spending on national code category reaches $2,378,213 in Greensboro for 2024

Providers in Greensboro billed $2,378,213 to Medicaid for services identified as National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies in 2024, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This amount marked a 90.1% jump from 2023, when providers billed $1,251,271 for the same service group.

Medicaid, a public health insurance program administered by states and funded by both federal and state governments, covers low-income populations, seniors, children, and individuals with disabilities, making it a major component of the American health care landscape.

Since Medicaid is funded by taxpayers, variations in local billing highlight how public funds for health care are distributed across communities.

The “National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies” category includes a range of services billed to Medicaid based on coding systems like HCPCS and CPT code groups. This analysis standardized each billing code to one service category using grouped code prefixes and number sequences, enabling an organized comparison of related services and preventing code overlap while maintaining accurate historical rankings.

Despite increases across several service categories, National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies ranked first for total Medicaid payments in Greensboro in 2024.

Statewide in Pennsylvania, the National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies category was the second-largest for Medicaid payments in 2024.

During the five-year span before 2024, Medicaid payments associated with National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies rose by $2,100,612 in Greensboro, or 756.7%. Periods of accelerated spending growth were evident in 2020 and 2022.

Though such Medicaid payments were spread throughout Greensboro, they were predominantly concentrated within a small number of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 15338 recorded the highest Medicaid total tied to the national codes group, matching the city’s $2,378,212 total. The top ZIP code comprised 100% of all related Medicaid payments within Greensboro for the year.

Payments within this Medicaid service category were also focused among a small selection of billing codes.

To compare, Greensboro’s Medicaid payments for this category rose 90.1% from 2023 to 2024, aligning with a 90% increase spanning all Medicaid claim types in the city for the same time frame.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined federal and state Medicaid spending reached approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, accounting for close to 18% of total U.S. health care outlays. That figure climbed from about $613.5 billion in 2019, before the onset of COVID-19.

This represents about 40% growth in just a few years, largely attributed to rising enrollment and increased service use related to the pandemic era.

Recent federal budget changes enacted under the Trump administration included proposals for major reductions to federal Medicaid funding and aims to restructure the program. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed into law in 2025, is expected to cut federal Medicaid funding by more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years and establishes measures like work requirements and expanded cost-sharing. Such policies could shrink coverage and reduce funds for some recipients, pushing increased costs onto states and constraining federal Medicaid expansion, even as the program continues to reach millions nationwide.

Note: HCPCS codes are displayed as examples in the category. All totals and rankings reflect standardized service groups rather than individual codes.

Details for this article originate from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. The original data can be accessed here.