Cuba, New Mexico Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures climb to $124,233 in 2024

Data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows Cuba providers billed $124,233 for Medicine Services and Procedures in 2024. This was a 112.3% uptick from 2023, when claims for the same category totaled $58,507.

Medicaid, overseen by states with both federal and state funding, supports low-income individuals and families, as well as seniors, children, and people with disabilities, making it among the most significant sectors of the U.S. health care system. More information is available at the Commonwealth Fund.

Because taxpayer dollars support Medicaid, shifts in local billing patterns provide insight into how public health care funds are used in the community.

The “Medicine Services and Procedures” group covers a set of Medicaid claims defined by type of care, based on standardized HCPCS and CPT codes. For this report, each billing code was grouped into a single service category using consistent code prefixes and numerical ranges, helping ensure services are counted accurately without duplication and that rankings are maintained over time.

While growth was seen in several categories, Medicine Services and Procedures held the second-highest rank for Medicaid payment totals in Cuba during 2024.

Across New Mexico, Medicine Services and Procedures was the top-ranked category by total Medicaid payments in 2024.

From five years prior to 2024, Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures in Cuba rose by $118,111, an increase of 1929.3%. Certain periods, such as 2021 and 2023, saw especially rapid growth.

Payments for Medicine Services and Procedures, while spread throughout the city, were especially concentrated in a few ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP codes 87103 and 87013 had the largest Medicaid expenditures for this service, with $90,556 and $33,676 respectively. Together, these 2 ZIP codes accounted for all Medicaid payments tied to this category in Cuba for the year.

Within this service category, a small group of individual billing codes received the majority of Medicaid payments.

Between 2024 and 2023, Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures in Cuba rose by 112.3%, far outpacing the 10.6% shift observed across all Medicaid claim categories in the city for the same timeframe.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined federal and state Medicaid expenditures reached approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, accounting for about 18% of all national health spending, up significantly from $613.5 billion in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This reflects a roughly 40% increase in a few years, with much of the change coming from increased enrollment and service usage related to and following the pandemic.

Recent federal budget measures under the Trump administration have put forward major reductions to federal Medicaid allocations and program structure reforms. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is forecasted to reduce federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion over the coming decade and incorporates new policies, such as work requirements and greater cost-sharing, that could restrict coverage and limit funding for certain recipients. These changes are anticipated to shift a greater financial burden to states and curb the growth of federal Medicaid funding, even as the program continues serving tens of 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.