Liberty Medicaid billing for Procedures / Professional Services hits $3,888,811 in 2024

In 2024, Liberty’s Medicaid providers invoiced $3,888,811 for services categorized as Procedures / Professional Services, based on data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This amount reflects a 10.6% increase from 2023, when claims for those services totaled $3,514,855.

Medicaid, which provides public health insurance for low-income people and is funded jointly by the federal and state governments, covers seniors, children, individuals with disabilities, and families, and remains one of the most significant segments in the U.S. health care system.

Because Medicaid resources are derived from taxpayers, fluctuations in local claims indicate how public health care funding is used throughout a given community.

The Procedures / Professional Services category includes a set of Medicaid-billed services grouped according to type of care, using standardized HCPCS and CPT codes. For this article, each billing code was allocated to a single category by code prefixes and number ranges, which organized related services by group and helped avoid double counting and maintain reliable year-to-year comparisons.

The Procedures / Professional Services category had the second highest Medicaid payment total of all categories in Liberty for 2024, following an overall increase seen across different types of Medicaid-paid care.

Statewide, Procedures / Professional Services ranked fifth in Medicaid payment rankings for Missouri in 2024.

During the five years through 2024, Liberty’s total Medicaid reimbursements for Procedures / Professional Services increased by $391,160—an 11.2% rise—with notable payment jumps particularly in 2022 and 2020.

Spending across the city was distributed within the Procedures / Professional Services category, though the bulk of Medicaid payments was tied to only a few ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 64068 accounted for the entire $3,888,811 total—the top ZIP code in Liberty for this category—which made up 100% of the Procedures / Professional Services Medicaid payments in the city for the year.

Within this category, a small number of billing codes appeared most frequently in claims, resulting in concentrated Medicaid payments.

When compared with 2023, Medicaid payments assigned to Procedures / Professional Services in Liberty rose by 10.6%. The increase outpaced the overall citywide growth rate across all Medicaid claim types, which came in at 6% over the same period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, total federal and state Medicaid expenditures were about $871.7 billion during fiscal year 2023, making up roughly 18% of U.S. health care spending. This total has risen from about $613.5 billion in 2019, reflecting the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This roughly 40% growth in spending has largely resulted from both increased enrollment and greater service utilization during and after the pandemic era.

Major federal budget changes under the Trump administration brought forward proposals to reduce Medicaid funding and transform the program. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” approved in 2025, will cut more than $1 trillion in federal Medicaid funds over the next 10 years. It also introduces stricter requirements, like mandatory work and higher cost-sharing, which could limit coverage and reduce funds available for certain groups. These measures will place additional responsibility on states and are set to slow long-term federal Medicaid support 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.