Ozark Medicaid spending on radiology procedures reaches $4,398 in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Ozark billed a total of $4,398 for services under the Radiology Procedures category, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This amount marked a 16% jump from 2023, when these providers submitted $3,792 in claims for the same category of service.

Medicaid is a state-operated public health insurance program, funded by both federal and state governments. It offers coverage to low-income families and individuals, seniors, children, and people with disabilities, making it a significant part of the U.S. health care landscape.

Since Medicaid dollars are taxpayer-funded, shifts in local billing reflect how health care resources are allocated within communities.

The “Radiology Procedures” category consists of services billed to Medicaid, structured by care type through standardized HCPCS and CPT coding groups. For this analysis, billing codes were categorized into service groups based on code prefixes and numeric ranges, enabling accurate comparisons and preventing double counting or ranking discrepancies over time.

Although Medicaid expenditures rose in a number of service categories, Radiology Procedures was ranked seventh by total Medicaid payments in Ozark for 2024.

Across Alabama, Radiology Procedures placed 13th by payment volume among all Medicaid service categories in 2024.

During the five years preceding 2024, Medicaid payments for Radiology Procedures in Ozark saw an increase of $3,888, or 762.8%. The rate of spending growth was higher in select years, with substantial year-over-year gains recorded in 2021 and 2023.

While payments for Radiology Procedures were distributed throughout Ozark, they were concentrated in a small number of ZIP codes. The highest Medicaid payments for this category in 2024 were in ZIP code 36360, totaling $4,397. The top ZIP code alone accounted for 100% of all Medicaid payments in Ozark for Radiology Procedures during the year.

Within the Radiology Procedures category, Medicaid spending was further concentrated among just a few specific billing codes.

For context, while Medicaid payments tied to Radiology Procedures in Ozark rose 16% from 2023 to 2024, the overall increase across all Medicaid claim categories in the city was 32.9% for the same interval.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data shows combined federal and state Medicaid spending reached approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023—about 18% of all U.S. health expenditures—up sharply from $613.5 billion in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This increase amounts to roughly 40% growth in a few years, primarily driven by rising enrollment numbers and greater utilization during and following the pandemic.

Recent federal budget laws enacted under the Trump administration have introduced major proposals to reduce federal Medicaid funding and restructure the program. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed into law in 2025, is expected to cut over $1 trillion in federal Medicaid funding in the next decade and adds requirements such as work rules and higher cost-sharing, which could decrease both access and funding for certain beneficiaries. These policy changes are expected to shift additional costs to states and restrict the growth of federal Medicaid funding as the program continues to cover tens of millions of Americans.

Note: HCPCS codes are provided for context within the category. Category amounts and rankings in this article are determined by standardized service groupings, not by individual codes.

This article’s information was sourced from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. Source data is available here.