De Queen Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures total $814,590 in 2024

Providers in De Queen submitted $814,590 in Medicaid claims for services under the Medicine Services and Procedures category in 2024, according to figures from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represents an increase of 21.6% compared with 2023, when total claims for the same service segment reached $669,976.

Medicaid, a public health insurance program overseen by states and jointly funded by federal and state governments, offers coverage to low-income people and families, seniors, children and individuals with disabilities, making it a major component of the United States health care system.

Since Medicaid dollars come from taxpayers, fluctuations in local claims activity indicate how community health care funding is distributed.

The “Medicine Services and Procedures” designation includes a collection of Medicaid-eligible services grouped by care type, based on consistent HCPCS and CPT code groupings. Each billing code in this analysis was assigned to a single service category using standard prefixes and numeric code ranges, which helped standardize trends and avoid duplicate counting or misclassification across years.

While Medicaid expenditures increased across several service areas, Medicine Services and Procedures were the second highest category by total Medicaid payments in De Queen for 2024.

Within Arkansas, the Medicine Services and Procedures category also held the second position by payment total for the year.

Between 2019 and 2024, De Queen Medicaid payments for this category grew by $622,347—or 323.7%. This growth included pronounced annual increases during certain years, notably in 2021 and 2023.

Although spending on Medicine Services and Procedures was distributed citywide, payments were primarily concentrated in a small set of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 71832 accounted for $814,589 in Medicaid spending for this category. That single ZIP code represented 100% of local Medicaid payments tied to the category in De Queen that year.

Medicaid claims within Medicine Services and Procedures were also focused among relatively few individual billing codes.

By comparison, from 2023 to 2024, Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures in De Queen increased 21.6%, while overall Medicaid claims across all service types in the city went up by 7% over the same period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, joint federal and state Medicaid spending reached around $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023. That represents about 18% of total U.S. health care expenditures, a significant jump from $613.5 billion in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This change marks an approximate 40% increase in just a few years, largely attributable to higher enrollment and increased demand for services during and after the pandemic era.

Recent federal budget measures during the Trump administration have included major proposals aimed at scaling back federal Medicaid support and modifying the program’s structure. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is expected to reduce federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion over a decade. The law introduces features such as work requirements and expanded cost-sharing, which could limit coverage and federal funding for some enrollees. These changes may shift increased financial responsibility to states and restrict federal Medicaid growth, as the program continues providing coverage to millions nationwide.

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.