Providers participating in Medicaid in Wyoming reported $116,774 in billed services under the Medicine Services and Procedures category during 2024, based on U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending data. The total reflects an increase of 273.9% over 2023, when the same service category accounted for $31,231 in claims.
Medicaid operates as a public health insurance initiative, managed by each state with funds shared between federal and state governments. Designed for low-income families and individuals, seniors, children, and people with disabilities, Medicaid represents a substantial segment of the nation’s health care system. Additional insights are available from the Commonwealth Fund.
Since Medicaid budgets come from taxpayer resources, changing billing volumes help reveal how public money for health care is distributed throughout the community.
The “Medicine Services and Procedures” classification encompasses a set of covered Medicaid services that are defined by specific care types per HCPCS and CPT code collections. In this analysis, individual billing codes were grouped into consolidated service categories using common code numbers and prefixes. This arrangement supports accurate tracking while avoiding duplicate figures and helps maintain consistent rankings across different timeframes.
Spending levels in multiple service categories showed growth, but Medicine Services and Procedures recorded the highest overall Medicaid payments in Wyoming in 2024.
Across Pennsylvania, Medicine Services and Procedures placed third among all categories for Medicaid payment totals that year.
For the period spanning the five years before 2024, Wyoming Medicaid payments to Medicine Services and Procedures increased by $113,617, a jump of 3598.5%, with periods of accelerated growth evident in both 2020 and 2021.
Spending was distributed through the city but was mostly focused in a small number of ZIP codes. In 2024, for the ZIP codes with the largest Medicaid payments within the Medicine Services and Procedures group, 18644 alone reached $116,774. This single area represented the entirety—100%—of all Medicaid outlays for this category in Wyoming for the year.
Within the Medicine Services and Procedures category itself, Medicaid reimbursements primarily involved just a small pool of select billing codes.
When comparing timeframes, Medicaid-related payments for the Medicine Services and Procedures class in Wyoming grew by 273.9% from 2023 to 2024. This growth rate compares to a 66.2% change observed across every Medicaid claim category in the city in that interval.
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, total federal and state Medicaid expenditures climbed to approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023—around 18% of all national health expenses—and sharply up from about $613.5 billion in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic.
This amounts to growth of about 40% in several years, much of it associated with rising enrollment numbers and increased demand related to the pandemic and its aftermath.
Recent federal appropriations made during the Trump administration contained major efforts to cut federal Medicaid funding and change program structure. Notably, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is forecast to reduce federal Medicaid support by over $1 trillion in the next decade, with measures such as introducing work requirements and higher cost-sharing that could decrease coverage and resources for some individuals. These adjustments are projected to transfer additional fiscal responsibility to individual states while restricting federal funding expansion, at the same time the program remains a vital support for tens of millions nationwide.
| Year | Total Medicaid Payments | % Change From Previous Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $3,157 | 228.9% |
| 2021 | $13,751 | 335.5% |
| 2022 | $20,705 | 50.6% |
| 2023 | $31,230 | 50.8% |
| 2024 | $116,774 | 273.9% |
| Rank | Category | Medicaid Payments | Share of City Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Medicine Services and Procedures | $116,774 | 68.2% |
| 2 | Vision Services | $35,038 | 20.5% |
| 3 | Evaluation and Management | $19,343 | 11.3% |
| HCPCS Code | Description | Medicaid Payments | Claims |
|---|---|---|---|
| 97530 | Therapeutic activities | $93,724 | 67 |
| 92014 | Compre oph exam est pt 1/> | $22,908 | 11 |
| 90688 | Iiv4 vaccine splt 0.5 ml im | $141 | 1 |
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.
