Ambulance and transport-related Medicaid payments reach $68,798 in Myrtle Point for 2024

Data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows Myrtle Point Medicaid providers reported $68,798 in charges for Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies in 2024. This amount represents a 61.7% rise compared with 2023, when $42,545 in claims were filed for these services.

Medicaid, a public health insurance initiative administered at the state level and supported through both federal and state funding, offers coverage to low-income individuals and families, children, seniors, and people with disabilities, making it a core component of the nation’s health care system.

Because Medicaid payments are funded by taxpayer dollars, shifts in local billing reveal how public health care spending is distributed in each community.

The “Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies” classification includes Medicaid services designated by the type of care delivered, identified by standardized HCPCS and CPT code groups. For this analysis, every billing code was placed into a service category based on matching code sequences, ensuring services are grouped accurately, rankings are clear, and that there is no double counting.

Although there were increases in Medicaid outlays in multiple categories, Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies was the top category for Myrtle Point in 2024 in terms of total Medicaid spending.

Statewide, this category ranked fifth for total payments in Oregon in 2024.

In the five years before 2024, Medicaid spending on Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies in Myrtle Point grew by $27,584, or 28.6%. Periods such as 2020 and 2022 saw the most pronounced annual jumps within this timeframe.

Citywide payment data show that, while these services were accessed in several parts of Myrtle Point, a small number of ZIP codes had the majority of Medicaid spending. In 2024, ZIP code 97458 accounted for $68,797, representing 100% of payments in this category inside Myrtle Point for the year.

Spending within this service type was also concentrated among a few high-volume billing codes.

When compared to all Medicaid claim categories in Myrtle Point, payments for Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies grew by 61.7% between 2024 and 2023, while all categories together recorded a 60.2% increase in the same period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, state and federal Medicaid expenditures totaled approximately $871.7 billion for fiscal year 2023, accounting for close to 18% of total U.S. health care costs, a significant rise from the estimated $613.5 billion seen before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019.

The result is an increase of about 40% over several years, largely attributed to rising enrollment and greater utilization during and in the aftermath of the pandemic.

Recent congressional budget measures during the Trump administration have featured proposals to trim federal Medicaid appropriations and overhaul the program’s structure. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed into law in 2025, is forecasted to reduce federal Medicaid allocations by over $1 trillion in the next decade and includes policies like work requirements and higher cost-sharing, which may limit financial support and coverage for certain groups. These policies are expected to assign greater cost responsibility to states and constrain the expansion of federal Medicaid funding, even as the program serves tens of millions of people.

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.