Medicaid spending on medical and surgical supplies in Westhampton Beach climbs to $66,756 in 2024

Medicaid providers in Westhampton Beach billed $66,756 for Medical and Surgical Supplies services in 2024, as reported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represented a 2.1% increase over 2023, when claims for these services totaled $65,355.

Medicaid is a public health insurance program managed by the states with joint funding from federal and state governments. The program covers low-income individuals and families, seniors, children and people with disabilities, making it one of the U.S. health care system’s largest components.

Because taxpayers finance Medicaid payments, fluctuations in billing at the local level highlight how public health care resources are distributed within a community.

The “Medical And Surgical Supplies” classification encompasses a range of Medicaid-billed services determined by the nature of care provided, based on standardized HCPCS and CPT code groupings. This analysis assigned each billing code to one service category via uniform code prefixes and number ranges, allowing grouped services to be compared effectively while ensuring accurate rankings and eliminating double counting.

While Medicaid spending grew across several service categories, Medical and Surgical Supplies ranked sixth by total Medicaid payments in Westhampton Beach in 2024.

Statewide in New York, Medical and Surgical Supplies held the 13th spot in total payments among Medicaid categories during 2024.

Between 2020 and 2024, Westhampton Beach saw Medicaid payments linked to Medical and Surgical Supplies rise by $5,462, or 7.6%. Periods of accelerated growth included notable year-over-year increases recorded in both 2022 and 2022.

Spending on Medical and Surgical Supplies was dispersed citywide, though payments clustered in select ZIP codes. The ZIP code with the greatest Medicaid payments for Medical and Surgical Supplies in 2024—11978—accounted for $66,756, comprising 100% of such claims in Westhampton Beach for the year.

Within this category, Medicaid payments tended to concentrate on a small set of billing codes.

For further context, Medicaid payments for Medical and Surgical Supplies in Westhampton Beach grew by 2.1% from 2023 to 2024, in contrast with a 29.6% increase observed across all Medicaid claim categories in the city during that time frame.

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

This figure reflects a roughly 40% increase in just a few years, primarily fueled by expanded enrollment and greater utilization during and following the pandemic.

Recent federal budget laws enacted during the Trump administration have included major proposals to reduce federal Medicaid funding and make structural changes to the program. For example, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed into law in 2025, is expected to trim federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion over the next decade and brings in measures such as work requirements and increased cost-sharing—potentially decreasing coverage and funding for some beneficiaries. Such changes may shift more fiscal responsibility to states and restrain federal Medicaid growth, even as millions continue to benefit from the program.

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.