Curwensville Medicaid payments for ambulance, transport services reach $23,538 in 2024

In 2024, Curwensville Medicaid providers billed $23,538 for Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies, as reported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represented a 203.1% rise in payments from 2023, when providers claimed $7,766 for the same service type.

Medicaid is a public health insurance initiative, administered by individual states and funded cooperatively by federal and state governments. The program delivers health coverage to low-income people, families, seniors, children, and individuals living with disabilities, making it a major component of the nation’s health care system.

Since Medicaid uses taxpayer resources, any modifications in local claim volumes underscore how public health spending is allocated within communities.

The “Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies” category includes a combination of Medicaid-billed services, classified according to the type of care provided through standardized HCPCS and CPT code groupings. To conduct this analysis, each billing code was placed into a single service category through consistent code ranges and prefix assignments, ensuring that related services could be compared without double counting and that trends were accurately tracked over time.

While multiple Medicaid service categories saw increased spending, Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies had the highest total Medicaid payments in Curwensville for 2024.

At the state level, the category ranked sixth for total Medicaid payments in Pennsylvania during 2024.

During the five years prior to 2024, Medicaid spending tied to Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies in Curwensville climbed by $20,613, or 704.7%. Certain periods experienced sharp growth, with especially large annual increases in both 2023 and 2021.

Although expenditures in this category were recorded throughout the city, they were focused in few ZIP codes, most notably 16833, with $23,538 billed. Cumulatively, this top ZIP code was responsible for 100% of Medicaid payments in the category for Curwensville in 2024.

Within this service grouping, Medicaid payments were also concentrated in only a select set of billing codes.

In Curwensville, Medicaid spending linked to this category rose by 203.1% from 2023 to 2024, a percentage change identical to the overall rate of Medicaid claims growth across all categories in the city for that time.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined federal and state Medicaid expenditures totaled approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023. This made up about 18% of all U.S. health spending, a rise from around $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This reflects growth of nearly 40% over several years, mainly fueled by higher enrollment figures and service use prompted by the pandemic and its aftermath.

Federal budget laws enacted under the Trump administration proposed substantial reductions to Medicaid funding and significant program restructuring. Notably, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” was passed in 2025 with the intention of reducing federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion in the next decade. The law introduces new work requirements and higher cost-sharing, which could further decrease coverage and cut funding for some eligible beneficiaries. These changes are likely to transfer more program costs to states while restricting federal spending growth, even as Medicaid continues to serve millions nationwide.

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.