Christiansburg Medicaid providers billed $841,288 in 2024 for services under the Procedures / Professional Services category, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. That represents a 7.1% rise over 2023, when $785,265 was submitted for these services.
Medicaid is a state-administered, federally and state-funded public health insurance program. It provides coverage for low-income groups, including individuals, families, older adults, children, and people with disabilities, and makes up a large part of health care spending in the U.S. Learn more.
Since Medicaid is funded by taxpayers, changes in billing at the local level indicate how community health care funds are used.
The “Procedures / Professional Services” classification encompasses a range of Medicaid-billed services grouped by care type, utilizing standardized HCPCS and CPT coding. For this review, billing codes were traced to single service categories using specific code prefixes and number groupings, which allows for grouped analysis, accurate rankings, and no duplication over time.
While total Medicaid spending increased across several categories, Procedures / Professional Services finished fifth among categories by total payments in Christiansburg for 2024.
Procedures / Professional Services was the sixth largest Medicaid payment category statewide in Virginia in 2024.
From five years earlier to 2024, Christiansburg’s Medicaid spending for Procedures / Professional Services went up $638,232, a 314.3% increase. Periods of faster growth occurred, particularly in 2021 and 2022.
Claims for Procedures / Professional Services occurred throughout the city, but payouts focused on relatively few ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 24073 alone accounted for $841,288 in Medicaid payments for this category, representing 100% of category spending for Christiansburg during the year.
Within Procedures / Professional Services, Medicaid spending was concentrated among certain billing codes.
For context, Christiansburg’s Medicaid payments for Procedures / Professional Services climbed 7.1% from 2023 to 2024, while payments across all Medicaid claim categories locally rose by 11.6% in the same timeframe.
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined state and federal Medicaid expenditures totaled roughly $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, which accounted for about 18% of all U.S. health care spending. This is a sharp increase from $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The data reflects almost 40% growth over a few years, mainly driven by broader enrollment and increased service use during and after the pandemic.
The Trump administration enacted major federal budget measures to scale back federal Medicaid funding and adjust program requirements. One example is the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” passed in 2025, which is set to reduce federal Medicaid support by over $1 trillion in the coming decade and bring policies such as work requirements and higher cost-sharing for some. This could lead states to shoulder more of Medicaid’s costs and slow the federal program’s expansion, though Medicaid continues to serve tens of millions nationally.
| Year | Total Medicaid Payments | % Change From Previous Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $203,056 | 11.9% |
| 2021 | $445,569 | 119.4% |
| 2022 | $642,133 | 44.1% |
| 2023 | $785,264 | 22.3% |
| 2024 | $841,288 | 7.1% |
| Rank | Category | Medicaid Payments | Share of City Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment | $8,295,329 | 49.5% |
| 2 | Medicine Services and Procedures | $2,795,598 | 16.7% |
| 3 | Evaluation and Management | $2,283,464 | 13.6% |
| 4 | Radiology Procedures | $1,219,370 | 7.3% |
| 5 | Procedures / Professional Services | $841,288 | 5% |
| 6 | Pathology and Laboratory Procedures | $520,096 | 3.1% |
| 7 | Surgery | $330,844 | 2% |
| 8 | Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) | $218,360 | 1.3% |
| 9 | Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies | $104,111 | 0.6% |
| 10 | Drugs Administered Other than Oral Method | $81,469 | 0.5% |
| 11 | National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies | $30,197 | 0.2% |
| 12 | Durable Medical Equipment | $27,962 | 0.2% |
| 13 | Outpatient PPS | $20,438 | 0.1% |
| 14 | Medical And Surgical Supplies | $4,151 | <0.1% |
| 15 | Administrative, Miscellaneous and Investigational | $221 | <0.1% |
| 16 | Temporary Codes | $20 | <0.1% |
| 17 | Dental Services | $0 | <0.1% |
| HCPCS Code | Description | Medicaid Payments | Claims |
|---|---|---|---|
| G9012 | Other specified case mgmt | $410,402 | 23 |
| G0483 | Drug test def 22+ classes | $291,268 | 12 |
| G0299 | Hhs/hospice of rn ea 15 min | $71,325 | 8 |
| G9002 | Mccd,maintenance rate | $23,413 | 9 |
| G0151 | Hhcp-serv of pt,ea 15 min | $17,358 | 2 |
| G0480 | Drug test def 1-7 classes | $10,976 | 12 |
| G0463 | Hospital outpt clinic visit | $8,229 | 10 |
| G0467 | Fqhc visit, estab pt | $4,135 | 9 |
| G0378 | Hospital observation per hr | $3,614 | 7 |
| G0470 | Fqhc visit, mh estab pt | $563 | 3 |
| G1004 | Cdsm ndsc | $0 | 2 |
| G8431 | Pos clin depres scrn f/u doc | $0 | 4 |
| G8510 | Scr dep neg, no plan reqd | $0 | 8 |
| G8511 | Scr dep pos, no plan doc rng | $0 | 10 |
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.
