Chadds Ford Medicaid spending on medical and surgical supplies rises 0.7% in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Chadds Ford billed a total of $7,486,358 for Medical And Surgical Supplies services, based on data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This was a 0.7% rise compared to 2023, when billing for this service reached $7,431,393.

Medicaid is a public insurance program operated by states and jointly funded by the federal and state governments. It provides coverage for low-income families and individuals, seniors, children, and people with disabilities, and is a major component of the U.S. health care system. Learn more at the Commonwealth Fund.

Because Medicaid pays for services using taxpayer dollars, shifts in local billing figures can illustrate how health care resources are distributed in a particular community.

The “Medical And Surgical Supplies” grouping is based on categories mapped from HCPCS and CPT code sets by type of care delivered. For this report, every billing code was sorted into a single service group using specific code prefixes and numerical ranges to allow analysis of similar services while preventing duplicate counts and maintaining accurate rankings over time.

While spending increased across several service categories, Medical And Surgical Supplies received the highest total Medicaid payments in Chadds Ford in 2024.

Statewide in Pennsylvania, the Medical And Surgical Supplies category was ranked 12th in terms of total Medicaid payments in 2024.

Between 2020 and 2024, Medicaid payments for Medical And Surgical Supplies in Chadds Ford increased by $23,139, or 0.3%. There were periods of more rapid growth, with the biggest annual gains noted in 2022 and 2020.

Although payments within the Medical And Surgical Supplies category were distributed throughout the city, billing was heavily concentrated in certain ZIP codes. For 2024, ZIP code 19317 led with $7,486,357 in Medicaid payments, representing 100% of these category payments in Chadds Ford for the year.

Additionally, payments within this category were largely concentrated among a select handful of billing codes.

By comparison, Medicaid payments for Medical And Surgical Supplies in Chadds Ford rose 0.7% between 2024 and 2023, while overall Medicaid payment amounts for all claim categories in the city increased by 53.4% over the same period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, federal and state Medicaid spending reached an estimated $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, which was about 18% of all national health expenditures. This is up substantially from $613.5 billion in 2019, the year before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This jump reflects a roughly 40% increase over a few years, driven largely by greater enrollment and increased utilization related to and following the pandemic.

Recent federal budget measures introduced during the Trump administration proposed significant reductions to federal Medicaid financing and changes to program structure. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is expected to reduce federal Medicaid spending by over $1 trillion over ten years and includes provisions such as work requirements and higher cost-sharing, which could result in less coverage and reduced funds for some enrollees. These policy changes are anticipated to shift more costs to the states and curtail future increases in federal Medicaid contributions, even as millions of Americans remain enrolled in 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.