West Babylon Medicaid spending on ambulance and transport services climbs to $92,334 in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in West Babylon billed a total of $92,334 for services identified as Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies, as reported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represents a 687.2% rise from 2023, when billings for the same service category totaled $11,729.

Medicaid, a public insurance initiative, is managed by states and financed through both federal and state funds. It supports low-income people and families, older adults, children, and individuals with disabilities, making it one of the largest components of the U.S. health system.

Since Medicaid funding is provided by taxpayers, fluctuations in community billing levels reveal how public health resources are distributed locally.

The “Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies” group includes services classified by care type using standardized HCPCS and CPT codes. For this report, each billing code was classified into a single service group based on code prefixes and number ranges, letting similar services be evaluated together while preventing double counting and keeping ranking accuracy over time.

While multiple Medicaid service categories saw increased spending, Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies was the fourth-largest in West Babylon by payment amount in 2024.

Across New York, Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies ranked as the eighth-largest service category by total Medicaid payments during 2024.

Between 2019 and 2024, Medicaid spending on Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies in West Babylon rose by $92,334, or 0%. There were periods of accelerated growth, with marked year-over-year increases in both 2021 and 2022.

Spending in this service group was distributed across West Babylon but was especially concentrated in a small number of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 11704 recorded $92,334 in Medicaid payments for this category. The leading ZIP code made up 100% of West Babylon’s total Medicaid payments for Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies that year.

Within the category, most Medicaid payments were linked to a small group of billing codes.

To offer a broader context, Medicaid payments for Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies in West Babylon grew by 687.2% from 2023 to 2024, compared with a 38% increase across all Medicaid service categories locally in the same timeframe.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, total federal and state Medicaid expenditures reached roughly $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, making up about 18% of all U.S. health spending, rising sharply from approximately $613.5 billion in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This growth reflects a roughly 40% increase in a few years, largely attributed to expanded enrollment and higher utilization during and after the pandemic.

Recently enacted federal budget laws under the Trump administration have featured major proposals to trim federal Medicaid funding and reform the program. For example, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed into law in 2025, is expected to reduce federal Medicaid outlays by over $1 trillion during the next decade and implements policy changes such as work requirements and increased cost-sharing that could reduce access and funds for certain beneficiaries. These measures are likely to transfer more expenses to states and constrain future federal Medicaid growth, even as the program continues serving tens of millions of people across the country.

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.