Medicaid payments for ambulance and transport services total $47,010 in Freeport, Pennsylvania in 2024

Providers in Freeport billed Medicaid $47,010 for Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies in 2024, as reported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represented an 85.9% increase from 2023, when $25,282 in claims were made for similar services.

Medicaid operates as a government-run health insurance program managed by states and jointly financed with federal and state funds, as detailed by the Commonwealth Fund. The program serves low-income families and individuals, seniors, children, and people with disabilities, making it a major element of the U.S. health system.

Local Medicaid spending patterns reveal how community public health care dollars are deployed, since these payments are supported by taxpayers.

The “Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies” classification represents a collection of Medicaid-billed services, recorded based on standardized HCPCS and CPT coding formats. For this report, each code was linked to a single category using uniform prefixes and numerical ranges. This allowed for consistent category analysis and prevention of overlap or double counting in rankings.

Among all service types, Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies ranked first in Freeport by total Medicaid billings in 2024.

Statewide in Pennsylvania, the Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies grouping was ranked sixth by payment amount in 2024.

During the five years prior to 2024, Medicaid payments associated with Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies in Freeport increased by $47,010, amounting to 0% growth overall. There were periods of accelerated growth, including sizable year-over-year increases in both 2022 and 2023.

Payments for these services covered various parts of Freeport, but spending was limited to a small number of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 16229 accounted for $47,010, representing 100% of Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies Medicaid billings in Freeport for that year.

The majority of Medicaid spending within this category came from a select set of billing codes.

To compare, Medicaid payments for Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies in Freeport increased by 85.9% from 2023 to 2024, matching the 85.9% change seen across all Medicaid claim categories locally during this period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, federal and state Medicaid spending combined reached approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, which made up around 18% of total national health expenditures. That figure was a notable increase from $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 outbreak.

This rise marks around 40% spending growth in just a few years, mainly due to enrollment expansions and increased use of services during and after the pandemic period.

Federal budget measures during the Trump administration introduced proposals to significantly trim Medicaid funding and change the program structure. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is projected to reduce federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years. New requirements introduced include work mandates and higher cost-sharing, which could limit coverage and dollars available for some beneficiaries. As a result, states may confront increased financial obligation as federal Medicaid support growth slows while the program serves tens of millions of Americans.

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.