Medicaid spending on Medicine Services and Procedures climbs 12.9% in Greer for 2024

In 2024, Greer Medicaid providers submitted $1,929,653 in claims for services grouped under the Medicine Services and Procedures category, data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows. This amount reflects a 12.9% increase from 2023, when providers billed $1,708,820 for the same services.

Medicaid, a public health insurance program administered by states and funded jointly by state and federal governments, serves low-income individuals, families, seniors, children, and those with disabilities. It is considered one of the largest programs within the U.S. health care system.

Taxpayer funds support Medicaid payments, meaning shifts in local billing reflect how a community allocates public health care resources.

The Medicine Services and Procedures category encompasses a range of Medicaid-billed services, distinguished by care type and identified through unified HCPCS and CPT code groupings. For this analysis, billing codes were assigned to a single category based on consistent code prefixes and numbers, ensuring that related services are grouped together while preventing double counting and maintaining accurate rankings.

While Medicaid spending grew in several service categories, Medicine Services and Procedures held the third-highest total in Greer for 2024.

Statewide in South Carolina, the Medicine Services and Procedures category also placed third for total Medicaid payments in 2024.

From 2019 through 2024, Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures in Greer rose $1,069,390, a 124.3% increase. Spending growth was especially pronounced during select periods, including notable year-over-year gains in 2021 and 2023.

Spending within this service category was distributed across Greer, but most Medicaid payments were concentrated in a few ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 29650 accounted for $1,861,923 and 29651 for $67,729 in Medicaid payments within the Medicine Services and Procedures category. Combined, these 2 ZIP codes represented 100% of related Medicaid payments in Greer for the year.

On a code level, most Medicaid payments in Medicine Services and Procedures were concentrated within a select group of individual billing codes.

Looking at broader trends, Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures in Greer increased 12.9% from 2023 to 2024, while, across all Medicaid claim categories in the city, payments grew by 12.4% over the same span.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined federal and state Medicaid spending reached approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, making up about 18% of total U.S. health expenditures, a significant jump from $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This increase amounts to nearly 40% growth in a handful of years, primarily due to expanded enrollment and greater utilization during and after the pandemic.

In recent years, federal budget bills under the Trump administration have included notable proposals to cut federal Medicaid funding and change program structure. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed in 2025, is expected to reduce federal Medicaid spending by over $1 trillion in the next decade, adding measures like work requirements and increased cost-sharing that could mean less coverage and funding for some recipients. These changes are projected to shift more cost responsibility to states and curb growth in federal Medicaid payments, even as the program continues serving tens of millions nationally.

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.