Hendricks Medicaid payments for Surgery total $971 in 2024, rising 75.9%

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Hendricks submitted $971 in claims for services within the Surgery category, data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows. This amount represents a 75.9% increase over 2023, when $552 was billed for this category.

Medicaid is a public health insurance program administered by the states and funded jointly by federal and state governments. It provides coverage for low-income individuals and families, seniors, children, and those with disabilities, making it one of the country’s largest health care programs.

Since Medicaid payments are taxpayer-funded, variations in local billing detail how public health dollars are distributed across communities.

The “Surgery” classification groups Medicaid-billed services according to the nature of care provided, organized by standardized HCPCS and CPT codes. For this analysis, each code was associated with one service category based on established code prefixes and numerical ranges, ensuring related services were grouped, avoiding duplicate counts and maintaining accurate rankings over time.

While Medicaid spending increased in several service areas, Surgery was the second largest category by total Medicaid payments in Hendricks for 2024.

Statewide, Surgery was ranked 14th in Minnesota based on total Medicaid payments in 2024.

During the five years preceding 2024, Hendricks saw an increase of $643, or 195.8%, in Medicaid payments associated with the Surgery category. This growth was particularly strong in certain years, with significant year-over-year gains during 2021 and 2022.

The distribution of Medicaid spending for Surgery services spanned the city, but most payments were concentrated within a small number of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 56136 accounted for $970 in Surgery-related Medicaid payments. The leading ZIP code made up 100% of all such payments in the city that year.

Payments for Surgery were also focused among a few specific billing codes within the category.

To compare, Surgery-related Medicaid payments in Hendricks rose 75.9% from 2023 to 2024, while all Medicaid claim categories combined increased by 42.5% within the city during that period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, federal and state Medicaid spending reached about $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, making up roughly 18% of total U.S. health expenditures. This was a substantial rise from approximately $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This change marks roughly 40% growth over several years, fueled in large part by higher enrollment and increased utilization throughout and following the pandemic.

Recent federal budget laws enacted under the Trump administration have proposed substantial reductions to federal Medicaid funding and changes to the program’s structure. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” passed in 2025, is expected to decrease federal Medicaid spending by over $1 trillion over the next decade and adds measures like work requirements and greater cost-sharing that may lower coverage and federal funding for particular groups. These adjustments are anticipated to shift more costs to states and restrict the rate of federal Medicaid expansion, even as the program continues to serve tens of 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.