Huntington Park Medicaid spending for National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies climbs to $42 million in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Huntington Park submitted $42,008,174 in claims for services marked under the National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies category, as reported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This amount reflects a 37.6% rise over 2023, when claims for the same services totaled $30,519,876.

Medicaid is a state-managed health insurance and is jointly financed by federal and state governments. It assists low-income individuals and families, seniors, children, and people with disabilities, making it a major component of the U.S. health care system.

Since taxpayers fund Medicaid, local shifts in Medicaid billing point to how public health care dollars are spent in any community.

The “National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies” group comprises Medicaid-billed care types identified by standardized HCPCS and CPT codes. Analysts assigned each code to one primary service category by code ranges and prefixes, helping ensure related services are gathered under a single group and preventing duplicate counting in year-to-year comparisons.

Spending on Medicaid climbed across several care categories, yet the National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies group accounted for the largest total outlay in Huntington Park in 2024.

Across California, National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies also ranked first by total payments in 2024.

During the five years before 2024, Medicaid claims for the National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies service group in Huntington Park rose by $28,345,513, or 207.5%. Portions of this growth were particularly pronounced in 2021 and 2023, when year-over-year increases stood out.

Payments in the National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies group were made throughout the city, but most activity centered in a small number of ZIP codes. For 2024, ZIP code 90255 recorded Medicaid payments totaling $42,008,174 within this service group. Combined, the top ZIP code made up 100% of the category’s Medicaid payments in Huntington Park that year.

Within National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies, claims were again focused within a few key individual billing codes.

To compare, between 2024 and 2023, Medicaid payments in this group increased by 37.6% in Huntington Park, while the city saw a smaller 12.1% rise across all Medicaid claim types in the same time span.

Figures from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services indicate overall federal and state Medicaid expenditures were about $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, roughly 18% of all U.S. health spending, increasing sharply from $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This uptick amounts to about 40% growth over a few years, mainly due to greater enrollment and heightened service usage after the pandemic.

Federal budget laws enacted during the Trump administration included major efforts to lower federal spending on Medicaid and alter how the program operates. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed into law in 2025, is anticipated to trim federal Medicaid funding by over $1 trillion in the coming decade and imposes measures like work mandates and higher out-of-pocket costs, potentially scaling back funding and access for some users. Those adjustments are expected to move increased financial responsibility to states, restraining federal aid growth even as demand stays high among tens of millions of Americans using Medicaid.

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.