Black Canyon City Medicaid billing for National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies reaches $516,675 in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Black Canyon City submitted $516,675 in claims tied to the National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies, based on information from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. That amount was 0.5% higher than in 2023, when claims for the same services totaled $514,226.

Medicaid, managed by individual states and funded by both federal and state governments, covers low-income residents, seniors, children, and people with disabilities. It is one of the largest programs in the U.S. health care sector.

Since Medicaid spending relies on taxpayer funding, shifts in local billing levels reflect how health care resources are distributed within a given area.

The “National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies” group represents a collection of services billed to Medicaid, defined by specific care types following HCPCS and CPT coding standards. For this reporting, individual billing codes were grouped into a single service category based on code prefixes and number ranges, which allows tracking comparable services over time without double counting and helps keep rankings precise.

While various service types saw greater Medicaid payments, National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies ranked as the top category by total dollars billed through Medicaid in Black Canyon City in 2024.

Statewide, the National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies also ranked as the leading category in total Medicaid payments in Arizona for 2024.

Over the five years to 2024, total Medicaid billing in Black Canyon City for the National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies rose by $516,675, maintaining a growth rate of 0%. There were periods of accelerated growth, notably in 2022 and 2023.

Payments for National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies services were distributed throughout the city, but the majority were concentrated in a small number of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 85324 recorded $516,674 in payments for those services, representing 100% of Black Canyon City’s Medicaid payments in this category that year.

The distribution within the category showed that just a few billing codes accounted for most Medicaid payments for National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies services.

By comparison, Medicaid spending under this category in Black Canyon City increased 0.5% between 2023 and 2024, whereas across all claim types in the city, the change during that period was 3.5%.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, joint federal and state Medicaid expenditures totaled about $871.7 billion for fiscal year 2023, which equaled roughly 18% of total national health spending. That number rose significantly from approximately $613.5 billion in 2019 before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This growth amounts to about 40% in just a few years, largely propelled by swelling enrollment and heightened usage during and after the pandemic.

Recent federal budgeting under the Trump administration has featured several major proposals to sharply curtail federal Medicaid outlays and implement structural changes. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed in 2025, is set to reduce federal Medicaid funding by over $1 trillion throughout the next decade, adding new work requirements and requiring more cost sharing, which may reduce benefits for some enrollees and allocate more costs to states. Despite these changes, Medicaid continues to serve tens of millions of Americans even with anticipated constraints on federal support.

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.