Commercial Point sees 373.2% surge in Medicaid spending for ambulance and transport services in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Commercial Point billed $1,959 for Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies, as detailed in data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This amounted to a 373.2% rise from 2023, when the total for these services reached $414.

Medicaid serves as a public health insurance initiative jointly funded by federal and state governments and managed at the state level. The program covers low-income people, children, older adults, and individuals with disabilities, positioning it among the largest health programs in the U.S.

Since Medicaid is funded by taxpayers, variations in local claims highlight where community health care dollars are directed.

The “Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies” group includes a range of Medicaid-billed services characterized by specific care types based on defined HCPCS and CPT code groupings. In this report, each billing code was placed into a single service category using consistent code prefixes and number ranges to examine related services together and help maintain accurate rankings year over year.

Among the many service categories where Medicaid spending increased, Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies ranked highest for total Medicaid payments in Commercial Point in 2024.

Statewide in Ohio, this category ranked 11th by total Medicaid payments for 2024.

Between 2019 and 2024, Medicaid payments for Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies in Commercial Point jumped by $1,717, a 709.5% increase. There were particularly strong year-to-year rises in both 2021 and 2022 as the upward trend accelerated.

Payments for these services throughout the city were nevertheless focused in a small number of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 43116 made up the entirety of the Medicaid payments in this category, totaling $1,959. This meant that the top ZIP code accounted for 100% of all Medicaid spending for Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies in Commercial Point during the year.

Additionally, most Medicaid spending within the Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies category stemmed from a select group of individual billing codes.

To compare, Medicaid payments for this category in Commercial Point increased 373.2% from 2023 to 2024, while all Medicaid claim categories combined saw a 373.3% growth in the city in the same timeframe.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports that joint federal and state Medicaid spending reached about $871.7 billion for fiscal 2023, which represented almost 18% of national health expenditures, an increase from around $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This growth, almost 40% in just a few years, was primarily due to greater enrollment and utilization surrounding the pandemic.

Recent federal budget measures enacted during the Trump administration have featured major proposals to trim federal Medicaid funding and restructure the system. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” passed in 2025, projects cuts of over $1 trillion in federal Medicaid spending over the next decade and introduces changes such as work requirements and more cost-sharing, which could restrict coverage and funding for certain participants. These steps are set to transfer additional costs to states while limiting future federal Medicaid growth, even as the program remains vital 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.