Beacon Medicaid spending on ambulance and transport services totals $168,316 for 2024

Data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows Beacon Medicaid providers billed $168,316 for Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies in 2024. This reflects a 26.8% increase from 2023, when claims for the same services reached $132,770.

Medicaid, a public health insurance system co-financed by federal and state governments, provides coverage for low-income people, families, seniors, children, and those with disabilities. This makes it a significant part of the U.S. health care system. Additional coverage details are available here.

Because taxpayer funding supports Medicaid, shifts in local billing patterns reflect how health care expenditures are distributed within a given community.

The “Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies” designation includes a standardized group of Medicaid-billed services determined by HCPCS and CPT code groupings. For this report, every billing code fits a single service class, using consistent code prefixes and ranges, which allows for clear aggregation and ranking of related services, avoiding duplicate counting.

Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies had the highest total Medicaid payments among service categories in Beacon in 2024, registering greater increases compared with several other service types.

This category ranked eighth by total payments for Medicaid claims at the statewide level in New York for 2024.

Looking back over five years through 2024, Beacon’s Medicaid bills related to Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies grew by $94,170, an increase of 127%. Growth rates accelerated in select periods, notably in 2021 and 2023 compared with earlier years.

Most spending for this category in 2024 was concentrated within specific city ZIP codes. For that year, ZIP code 12508 alone accounted for all $168,316 in Medicaid payments for Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies, representing 100% of category-specific Medicaid claims in Beacon.

Within this service group, a limited set of billing codes generated most of the Medicaid spending.

Over 2024, category-related spending in Beacon climbed 26.8% compared with 2023. Across all Medicaid service categories in the city, the change during the same interval was 48.2%.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined federal and state Medicaid expenditures were about $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023—about 18% of total U.S. health spending—up from roughly $613.5 billion in 2019 before the onset of COVID-19.

That rise translates into nearly 40% growth in a few years, primarily due to increased enrollment and service use during and following the pandemic.

Recent changes under federal budget legislation during the Trump administration included plans to cut federal Medicaid spending substantially and alter the program’s structure. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is forecast to reduce federal Medicaid funding by over $1 trillion within a decade and brings in requirements such as mandated work and new cost-sharing, changes that may limit both funding and coverage for certain beneficiaries. As a result, states would face greater cost responsibility even as Medicaid continues serving tens of millions.

Note: HCPCS codes are provided for context. Category totals and reported rankings in this article use standardized service groupings, not individual billing codes.

All data cited in this article is from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. Access the source data here.