Medicaid spending on Procedures / Professional Services jumps 56.7% in Forest Park for 2024

Forest Park Medicaid providers billed a total of $238,736 for services listed under the Procedures / Professional Services category in 2024, figures from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database show. This represented a 56.7% increase over 2023, when the same types of services resulted in $152,345 in claims.

Medicaid, a health coverage program managed by each state and jointly funded by federal and state governments, serves low-income people, seniors, children, and individuals with disabilities. The program accounts for a major share of the nation’s health care system. For more on Medicaid funding, visit this explainer.

Since Medicaid payments are sourced from taxpayers, variations in local billing amounts highlight how communities dedicate their public health care spending.

The “Procedures / Professional Services” category comprises a collection of Medicaid-billed services grouped by type of care, based on standardized HCPCS and CPT codes. Each code was linked to a single service group for this analysis, using defined code prefixes and ranges to ensure related services were categorized together, supporting clear analysis while preventing double counting and maintaining accurate service rankings.

Despite growth in several service categories, Procedures / Professional Services was the highest Medicaid expenditure by category in Forest Park in 2024.

Statewide in Georgia, Procedures / Professional Services ranked ninth by Medicaid payments for the year 2024.

Looking at the five years before 2024, Medicaid funds linked to Procedures / Professional Services in Forest Park increased by $238,736, with an overall 0% change. Growth rates climbed at certain times, with especially large year-over-year gains in both 2023 and 2022.

Spending for Procedures / Professional Services persisted throughout Forest Park, though the majority of Medicaid dollars went to a select set of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 30297 received the largest share—$238,735. This ZIP accounted for 100% of the city’s Medicaid payments for Procedures / Professional Services that year.

Medicaid expenditures within this category were also concentrated around a small number of particular billing codes.

Comparing payment changes, Forest Park experienced a 56.7% rise for Procedures / Professional Services from 2023 to 2024, versus a 70.2% change across all claim categories locally during that stretch.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data indicates that total Medicaid spending from both federal and state sources reached roughly $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, making up about 18% of overall national health expenditures, a sharp rise from $613.5 billion in 2019 prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This rise represents about 40% growth in just a few years, much of it driven by expanded enrollment and increased health care use during and after the pandemic period.

Recent congressional budget bills passed during the Trump administration have contained major proposals to trim federal Medicaid funding and restructure the system. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which became law in 2025, aims to reduce federal Medicaid spending by over $1 trillion in the next decade, introducing measures including work requirements and greater cost-sharing that could cut coverage and resources for some enrollees. Such policy shifts are projected to pass more financial responsibility onto states, restricting federal Medicaid outlays even as the program serves tens of millions nationwide.

Note: HCPCS codes appear to provide context within the category. Reported totals and rankings draw from consistent service groupings, not individual billing codes.

Details in this report were sourced from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. The data set is available here.