Greenfield Medicaid payments for non-oral drug administration climb 30% to $70 in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Greenfield submitted $70 in claims for Drugs Administered Other than Oral Method services, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represented a 29.6% rise from 2023, when claims for the same category reached $54.

Medicaid is a state-operated public health insurance program that receives joint funding from federal and state governments. It offers coverage to low-income residents, the elderly, children, and those with disabilities, making it a major component of the U.S. health care landscape.

With Medicaid payments sourced from taxpayer dollars, shifts in local billing patterns highlight how public health care resources are distributed within the community.

The Drugs Administered Other than Oral Method category encompasses a set of services billed to Medicaid and grouped by care type, based on standardized HCPCS and CPT coding. Each billing code was linked to just one service category using standardized prefixes and number ranges for this analysis. This ensures related services are grouped together, prevents double counting, and maintains accuracy in longitudinal rankings.

Spending grew across several Medicaid service categories, but for 2024, Drugs Administered Other than Oral Method was the third largest Medicaid payment category in Greenfield.

Across Tennessee, this category ranked 15th for total Medicaid payments in 2024.

Between 2019 and 2024, Greenfield Medicaid claims for Drugs Administered Other than Oral Method increased by $47, or 40.3%. Growth periods included notable year-over-year spikes in both 2021 and 2022.

While these payments were generated citywide, most originated from a few ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 38230 accounted for $70—the highest Medicaid payments for the Drugs Administered Other than Oral Method category in Greenfield—and the top ZIP code represented 100.5% of such spending for the year.

A small set of billing codes dominated Medicaid expenditures within this service group.

To compare, Medicaid payments for this service group rose 29.6% in Greenfield between 2023 and 2024, while all Medicaid claim categories in the city saw a 36% increase during that period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, federal and state Medicaid spending reached roughly $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023. That equals about 18% of all national health expenditures and is a sharp increase from $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This change reflects a jump of approximately 40% over just a few years, primarily due to expanded Medicaid roles and increased usage during and after the pandemic.

Recent federal budget measures under the Trump administration included major suggested reductions to Medicaid funding and restructuring of the program. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” passed in 2025, is expected to cut more than $1 trillion from federal Medicaid spending over 10 years. It also introduces policies such as work requirements and higher cost-sharing, which may reduce both coverage and funding for some enrollees. These adjustments are set to pass more Medicaid funding responsibilities to states even as program enrollment stays high.

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.