Medicaid payments for National Codes Established services in Tamarac rise 2.7% in 2024

In Tamarac, Medicaid providers billed $4,646,122 in 2024 for services classified in the National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies category, data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows. This represents a 2.7% uptick compared with 2023, when $4,522,176 was submitted in claims for the same services.

Medicaid, a health insurance program managed by the states and funded by both federal and state governments, covers children, low-income families, seniors, and people with disabilities, making it a significant component of the U.S. health care landscape.

Since Medicaid is backed by taxpayer funding, changes in billing activity indicate how public health care resources are distributed within a community.

The National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies category includes a set of Medicaid-billed services defined by specific care types and grouped by standardized HCPCS and CPT codes. For this report, each billing code was matched to one service group using consistent prefixes and numeric spans, enabling related services to be assessed collectively without double counting and maintaining accurate rankings over time.

Though Medicaid expenditures rose across several categories, National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies was the leading Medicaid payment category in Tamarac for 2024.

Statewide, this category ranked as the second largest by total Medicaid payments in Florida during 2024.

From 2019 to 2024, Tamarac’s Medicaid payments for services in this category grew by $2,549,352, an increase of 121.6%. There were periods of accelerated growth, with notable annual increases recorded in both 2023 and 2022.

Spending for this care type was distributed across the city but concentrated in a few ZIP codes. In 2024, the largest Medicaid payments in this category were recorded in ZIP code 33319, accounting for $2,042,237, followed by 33321 at $1,822,001, and 33351 with $538,192. These 3 ZIP codes together represented 94.8% of all Medicaid payments for this category in Tamarac for the year.

Medicaid payments within this category were also highly focused among a small set of individual billing codes.

Comparing annual changes, Medicaid payments for National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies grew by 2.7% from 2023 to 2024, while total Medicaid payments across all claim categories in Tamarac increased by 11.2% in the same timeframe.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined state and federal Medicaid expenditures totaled about $871.7 billion in the 2023 fiscal year, making up approximately 18% of national health spending, a substantial rise from around $613.5 billion in 2019 prior to COVID-19.

This change reflects about 40% growth in several years, mostly because of increased enrollment and higher utilization before and after the pandemic.

Recent federal budget measures enacted during the Trump administration proposed major reductions to federal Medicaid funding and potential restructuring of the program. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which became law in 2025, is expected to cut federal Medicaid expenditures by over $1 trillion in the next decade and introduce measures such as work requirements and more cost-sharing. These provisions could limit coverage and funding for some beneficiaries, placing more financial responsibility on states and slowing future federal Medicaid growth as the program continues to support 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.