Medicaid payments in Baldwin City rise 1.1% to $2,653,160 for state-established national codes in 2024

Baldwin City’s Medicaid providers submitted $2,653,160 in claims in 2024 for services under the National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies category, data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database show. This reflected a 1.1% increase from 2023, when providers billed $2,624,689 for the same services.

Medicaid is a government health insurance program managed by states and co-funded by state and federal sources. The program supports low-income people and families, the elderly, children, and those with disabilities, making it a major segment of the U.S. health care system.

Because Medicaid is funded through public dollars, localized changes in billing patterns offer insight into how a community uses its health care funding.

The “National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies” designation includes a category of Medicaid-billed services grouped by service type and based on standardized HCPCS and CPT code sets. For the purposes of this analysis, billing codes were organized into discrete service categories via consistent code series and numeric blocks, supporting analysis and reducing duplicate entries while maintaining historical accuracy in rankings.

In Baldwin City, this service group accounted for the largest share of total Medicaid claims among service categories in 2024.

Across Kansas as a whole, the National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies also led all categories for Medicaid payments in 2024.

In the five years before 2024, Medicaid reimbursements for Baldwin City services in this category increased to $2,653,160, representing flat growth of 0%. However, acceleration in spending was evident during select intervals, with standout year-over-year gains posted in 2022 and 2023.

While these Medicaid outlays covered different locations throughout the city, most payments happened within a small number of ZIP codes. For 2024, ZIP code 66006 represented $2,653,160 of Medicaid payments linked to these services. The leading ZIP code thus accounted for 100% of the payments in this service group in Baldwin City for the year.

Inside the larger National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies group, most payments stemmed from a narrow set of billing codes.

To compare, this Medicaid category in Baldwin City rose by 1.1% from 2023 to 2024, versus a 0.8% increase for all claim categories combined in the same period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, total federal and state Medicaid spending hit about $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023. Medicaid made up roughly 18% of all health care spending in the country, up significantly from $613.5 billion noted in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 health crisis.

That jump amounts to about 40% growth in just several years, propelled by higher enrollment and greater use of care during and after the COVID-19 pandemic era.

Federal budget measures enacted during the Trump administration call for large-scale reductions to federal Medicaid aid and significant change to the program. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed in 2025, is expected to cut federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years and adds new performance requirements and cost-sharing policies possibly reducing benefits and funding for some recipients. The financial effects are expected to place more costs on states and slow future federal Medicaid commitment, despite the continued need among 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.