Medicaid spending for ambulance and transport services climbs to $30,639 in Exmore, Virginia in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Exmore submitted $30,639 in claims under the Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies category, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represented a 9.9% uptick from the previous year, when total claims for this service category reached $27,886.

Funded by both federal and state governments, Medicaid is a state-administered public health insurance program providing coverage for low-income individuals and families, people with disabilities, children, and seniors, making it one of the nation’s largest health care programs.

Because Medicaid is taxpayer-funded, changes in how much is billed locally reflect how public health care resources are distributed in a specific community.

The “Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies” classification encompasses a set of Medicaid-billed services determined by care provided, based on standardized HCPCS and CPT coding groups. For this report, each billing code was assigned to a single care category using uniform code prefixes and numerical spans, letting related services be grouped together, while avoiding any duplicate counting and keeping rankings accurate over consecutive years.

While total Medicaid outlays increased in several categories, Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies was the fifth-largest category for Medicaid payments in Exmore during 2024.

Statewide in Virginia, the Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies group ranked 10th by total Medicaid payments in 2024.

From 2019 up to 2024, Medicaid spending attributed to this category in Exmore rose by $5,565, or 22.2%. Spending accelerated during some years, with notable increases on a year-over-year basis during both 2021 and 2022.

Although spending in this care category was distributed throughout Exmore, most Medicaid payments were concentrated in a small number of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 23350 recorded $30,638, representing 100% of all Medicaid spending for this service category in Exmore that year.

Within the Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies grouping, the majority of Medicaid payments were attached to just a few billing codes.

Between 2024 and 2023, Medicaid payments for this category in Exmore increased by 9.9%, while all Medicaid claim categories in the city experienced a 13.2% change for the same period.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services report that federal and state Medicaid spending combined reached approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, accounting for about 18% of total U.S. health spending, up significantly from about $613.5 billion in 2019 before the COVID-19 emergency.

This growth indicates a jump of roughly 40% over several years, mainly driven by increased enrollment and greater use of services during and following the pandemic.

Recent federal budgets under the Trump administration have included major proposals to trim federal Medicaid outlays and change the program structure. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is expected to slash more than $1 trillion in federal Medicaid spending over the next 10 years and implements changes such as work mandates and higher cost-sharing that could shrink both funding levels and coverage for some recipients. These reforms are likely to place greater financial responsibility on states and restrict the expansion of federal contributions, despite the fact that Medicaid continues to cover tens of millions nationwide.

Note: HCPCS codes are included for illustrative purposes within the category. Article category totals and rankings are determined through standardized service groupings, rather than from individual codes.

This analysis draws from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. Source data may be accessed here.