Harleyville Medicaid costs for Medicine Services and Procedures climb to $178,924 in 2024

Harleyville Medicaid providers billed $178,924 for services identified under the Medicine Services and Procedures category in 2024, as reported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This total represented a 4.2% rise compared to 2023, when claims for the same service group reached $171,666.

Medicaid, a public health insurance program administered by the states and funded collectively by federal and state governments, insures low-income families and individuals, seniors, children, and people with disabilities, ranking among the largest components of U.S. health care.

As Medicaid is funded by taxpayers, shifts in billing levels locally reflect how a community chooses to distribute public health care expenditures.

The “Medicine Services and Procedures” category covers a specific set of Medicaid-billed services, organized according to standardized HCPCS and CPT code ranges. For this analysis, billing codes were placed in a single service category using consistent code prefixes and ranges to keep related services together and avoid double counting, ensuring rankings match actual service volumes over multiple years.

While overall Medicaid payments grew across several service areas, Medicine Services and Procedures accounted for the largest share of Medicaid payments in Harleyville for 2024.

Statewide in South Carolina, Medicine Services and Procedures ranked third in total Medicaid payments for the year.

Across the five years ending in 2024, Harleyville’s Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures went up by $96,720, or 117.7%. The growth rate increased during some years, with especially high gains in 2022 and 2021.

Although Medicaid expenditure for Medicine Services and Procedures was spread throughout Harleyville, most payments came from a few ZIP codes. In 2024, the ZIP code 29448 stood out, accounting for $178,923. Altogether, the top 1 ZIP code made up 100% of spending in this category in Harleyville for the year.

Within Medicine Services and Procedures, most Medicaid dollars were directed to a relatively small number of billing codes.

For context, payments for Medicine Services and Procedures in Harleyville increased 4.2% from 2023 to 2024, matching the 4.2% rise seen for all Medicaid service categories in the area over the same timeframe.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined federal and state Medicaid expenditures totaled about $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, which made up around 18% of national health spending, rising sharply from $613.5 billion in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This jump marks nearly 40% growth over a few years, led by expanded eligibility and increased use during and after the pandemic era.

Legislation passed in the Trump administration included major proposals that reduce federal Medicaid funding and change the program’s structure. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which became law in 2025, is expected to cut over $1 trillion from federal Medicaid spending in 10 years and bring policies like work requirements and higher cost-sharing, which may impact coverage and funding for certain populations. These updates would likely transfer more responsibility to states and limit overall federal spending growth for Medicaid, even with the program continuing to serve tens of 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.