Medicaid Medical And Surgical Supplies payments in West Milwaukee climb to $119,396 in 2024

In 2024, providers in West Milwaukee billed Medicaid $119,396 for services categorized as Medical And Surgical Supplies, based on data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This reflected a 25.4% rise over 2023’s provider claims of $95,230 for the same group of services.

Medicaid, a public health insurance initiative administered by the states with joint federal and state financing, covers eligible low-income residents, seniors, children, and people with disabilities, making it a major part of the nation’s health care structure. More details are available from the Commonwealth Fund.

Because taxpayer dollars support Medicaid, changes in area billing reflect shifting community allocations for public health spending.

The Medical And Surgical Supplies category includes particular Medicaid-billed services characterized by provided care type under standardized HCPCS and CPT code structures. For these figures, each billing code was assigned to a service category according to code prefixes and numerical groupings, enabling comparison of related service data and avoiding possible double counts or rank overlap over time.

While Medicaid spending went up for various service types, Medical And Surgical Supplies saw the highest overall Medicaid payments in West Milwaukee in 2024.

Medical And Surgical Supplies was ranked 12th in total Medicaid payments among all service categories for Wisconsin in 2024.

Between 2019 and 2024, Medicaid spending connected to Medical And Surgical Supplies in West Milwaukee increased by $42,545, or 55.4%. Steepest annual gains occurred in 2020 and 2022.

The majority of spending for Medical And Surgical Supplies was linked to specific ZIP codes, with expenditures in 2024 entirely concentrated in the 53214 ZIP code, which alone accounted for $119,395 of the medical supplies category’s total Medicaid payments in West Milwaukee.

This Medicaid spending was further distributed among a select number of individual billing codes within the Medical And Surgical Supplies category.

In West Milwaukee, Medicaid outlays for this category jumped 25.4% between 2023 and 2024, compared to a 16.9% increase for all Medicaid claims citywide for the same time frame.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, nationwide federal and state Medicaid spending was estimated at $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, making up about 18% of national health expenditures—a substantial rise from $613.5 billion recorded in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This represents an approximate 40% expansion over several years, mainly due to enrollment growth and increased health care use during and following the pandemic period.

Recent budget measures introduced in the Trump administration include major proposals to lower federal Medicaid outlays and reconfigure program structure. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is expected to reduce federal Medicaid expenditures by more than $1 trillion through the next decade, with new policies such as work requirements and expanded cost-sharing that could reduce access and funds for some recipients. These actions may increase cost burdens for states and constrain the growth of federal aid, even as Medicaid continues to insure tens of 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.