Medicaid payments for Procedures / Professional Services reach $227,072 in West Wendover in 2024

Providers in West Wendover billed $227,072 for Medicaid services categorized under Procedures / Professional Services in 2024, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represented a 31% rise from 2023, when $173,346 in claims were submitted for the same category.

Medicaid, a public health insurance program funded collectively by federal and state governments and administered by the states, supports low-income individuals and families, children, seniors, and people with disabilities, making it a major part of the U.S. health care system.

Because Medicaid is supported by taxpayer funding, shifts in local billing levels offer insight into how public health funds are distributed in specific communities.

The Procedures / Professional Services category covers a group of Medicaid-billed services organized by standardized HCPCS and CPT code groupings, defined by the type of care involved. For the purposes of this analysis, each code was classified within a single category based on systematic code prefixes and numeric ranges, providing a means to analyze related services together while preventing double counting and maintaining accurate rankings across years.

While Medicaid payments have grown across multiple service categories, Procedures / Professional Services saw the highest total Medicaid payments in West Wendover in 2024.

Statewide, Nevada ranked Procedures / Professional Services as ninth by total Medicaid payments in 2024.

From 2019 through 2024, Medicaid payments related to Procedures / Professional Services in West Wendover increased by $55,166, or 32.1%. The pace of growth varied, with notable jumps occurring in 2020 and 2021.

Spending for Procedures / Professional Services was present across the city but was especially concentrated in a few ZIP codes. ZIP code 89883 was the leading area in 2024, accounting for $227,071 in Medicaid payments for this service group. The top ZIP code made up 100% of all Medicaid payments tied to the category in West Wendover during the year.

Medicaid spending within the Procedures / Professional Services group was also focused on a small handful of individual billing codes.

To compare, Medicaid payments for Procedures / Professional Services in West Wendover went up by 31% from 2023 to 2024, while all Medicaid claim categories in the city saw a 37.8% change during that span.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined federal and state Medicaid expenditures totaled about $871.7 billion in the 2023 fiscal year, representing roughly 18% of total national health outlays—a steep increase from approximately $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This rise reflects approximately 40% growth over a short period, driven mainly by larger enrollment and increased usage during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Recent federal budget measures under the Trump administration proposed major reductions to federal Medicaid funding and introduced structural changes. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is projected to reduce federal Medicaid spending by over $1 trillion in the coming decade by introducing work requirements and raising cost-sharing, which may limit coverage and funding for certain beneficiaries. These policy changes are anticipated to shift more financial responsibility to states and may restrict growth in federal Medicaid assistance, even as the program remains a critical source of coverage for millions of Americans.

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.