In 2024, Medicaid providers in Eunice reported $5,895,007 in billed services under the National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies group, as shown by data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represented a 0.3% rise over 2023, when the total for the same service group was $5,878,782.
Medicaid serves as a public health insurance system managed by states and funded jointly by federal and state governments. It insures low-income people and families, seniors, children and those with disabilities, making it a major component of U.S. health care.
Because taxpayer funds support Medicaid payments, changes in local billing show how public health care resources are distributed in the community.
The “National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies” group refers to a collection of Medicaid-billed services defined by care type, using standardized HCPCS and CPT code groupings. Each billing code in this analysis was assigned to a single service category using uniform code prefixes and numeric ranges. This method grouped related services, reduced duplicate counting and maintained consistent rankings over time.
While Medicaid spending rose in several service areas, National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies was the top-ranked group by overall Medicaid payments in Eunice in 2024.
For Louisiana overall, this category ranked second statewide in 2024 by total Medicaid payments.
Across the five years before 2024, Medicaid payments for the National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies group in Eunice rose by $5,112,936, or 653.8%. Growth was especially notable in certain years, including marked increases in 2021 and 2023.
Spending for care in this group was citywide but heavily concentrated in a small number of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 70535 saw Medicaid payments for this category reach $5,895,006. This ZIP code represented 100% of all such Medicaid payments in Eunice for the year.
Within the category, Medicaid payments clustered among a few individual billing codes.
Comparing growth rates, Medicaid payments for this category in Eunice climbed 0.3% from 2023 to 2024, while all Medicaid claim categories citywide increased 10.4% during that span.
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined federal and state Medicaid expenditures were about $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, making up roughly 18% of total national health care spending, up substantially from $613.5 billion in 2019, ahead of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This increase reflects about 40% growth in a few years, largely a result of broader enrollment and increased service use during and after the pandemic.
Recent federal budgets enacted under the Trump administration included major proposals to shrink federal Medicaid funding and amend how the program is structured. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which became law in 2025, is expected to reduce federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion over 10 years. The law also sets new policies like work requirements and increased cost-sharing that could affect coverage and funding for some users. These changes would shift financial responsibilities to states and may slow federal Medicaid growth, even as the program continues to serve tens of millions of Americans.
| Year | Total Medicaid Payments | % Change From Previous Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $782,070 | -16.2% |
| 2021 | $2,332,768 | 198.3% |
| 2022 | $3,559,206 | 52.6% |
| 2023 | $5,878,782 | 65.2% |
| 2024 | $5,895,006 | 0.3% |
| Rank | Category | Medicaid Payments | Share of City Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies | $5,895,006 | 55.2% |
| 2 | Evaluation and Management | $1,624,289 | 15.2% |
| 3 | Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) | $1,035,732 | 9.7% |
| 4 | Medicine Services and Procedures | $686,730 | 6.4% |
| 5 | Pathology and Laboratory Procedures | $483,157 | 4.5% |
| 6 | Radiology Procedures | $286,583 | 2.7% |
| 7 | Surgery | $171,209 | 1.6% |
| 8 | Procedures / Professional Services | $170,157 | 1.6% |
| 9 | Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment | $122,260 | 1.1% |
| 10 | Durable Medical Equipment | $96,870 | 0.9% |
| 11 | Medical And Surgical Supplies | $70,839 | 0.7% |
| 12 | Vision Services | $18,945 | 0.2% |
| 13 | Drugs Administered Other than Oral Method | $7,619 | 0.1% |
| 14 | Anesthesia | $7,135 | 0.1% |
| 15 | Durable medical equipment (DME) Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) | $4,317 | <0.1% |
| 16 | Administrative, Miscellaneous and Investigational | $1,120 | <0.1% |
| 17 | Temporary Codes | $373 | <0.1% |
| 18 | Prosthetic Procedures | $0 | <0.1% |
| HCPCS Code | Description | Medicaid Payments | Claims |
|---|---|---|---|
| T1015 | Clinic service | $5,864,870 | 279 |
| T4534 | Youth size pull-on | $30,136 | 11 |
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.
