Surgery-related Medicaid payments in Brooksville rise to $341 in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Brooksville billed $341 for Surgery services, according to information from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. That figure reflects a 4.6% uptick compared with 2023, when local providers billed $326 for comparable services.

Medicaid, a state-administered health insurance program funded jointly by state and federal governments, covers individuals and families with low incomes, as well as seniors, children, and people with disabilities—making it one of the largest parts of the nation’s health care infrastructure.

Because Medicaid is supported by taxpayers, fluctuations in local billing reveal how public health care funds are distributed within communities.

The “Surgery” category includes Medicaid-billed services defined by the nature of care provided, using standardized HCPCS and CPT code groupings. For this report, every billing code was categorized under a single service area based on consistent code prefixes and ranges, which helps to group related care together for analysis while preventing cases from being counted multiple times or having rankings skewed over time.

Medicaid spending increased across a range of service types, but Surgery was the fourth largest Medicaid payment category in Brooksville for 2024.

Statewide in Mississippi, Surgery ranked as the ninth highest Medicaid payment category that year.

Looking at the five years preceding 2024, Surgery-related Medicaid payments in Brooksville rose by $341, representing a 0% overall change. Growth did accelerate during some intervals, notably with significant yearly jumps in both 2022 and 2022.

Although Surgery payments were made throughout the city, a large share was concentrated in a few ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 39739 accounted for $340 of Surgery-related Medicaid payments. The leading ZIP code comprised 99.9% of all such payments in Brooksville for the year.

A small number of individual billing codes represented the majority of Medicaid payments within the Surgery category.

The 4.6% increase in Surgery-related Medicaid payments between 2024 and 2023 in Brooksville compared to a 31.8% jump observed across all Medicaid claim categories in the city over the same timeframe.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports that combined federal and state Medicaid expenditures reached about $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, representing roughly 18% of all national health spending. That total was up sharply from around $613.5 billion in 2019, ahead of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This suggests roughly 40% growth in just a few years, driven mainly by higher enrollment and increased service usage during and after the pandemic period.

Recent federal budget acts under the Trump administration included notable proposals to decrease federal Medicaid funding and restructure the program. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which became law in 2025, is expected to reduce federal Medicaid expenditures by over $1 trillion in the coming decade, while instituting new policies such as work requirements and increased cost-sharing. These shifts may lower coverage and financial support for some recipients, pushing more responsibility onto states even as Medicaid continues to serve 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.