Jena Medicaid providers recorded $246,374 in ambulance and transport claims for 2024

Jena’s Medicaid providers recorded $246,374 in billing for services grouped as Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies in 2024, drawing on data compiled by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. The figure reflects a rise of 14.8% compared with 2023, when claims in this category amounted to $214,565.

Medicaid is a public health insurance initiative jointly funded by state and federal governments, as described by the Commonwealth Fund. The program provides health coverage to low-income groups, seniors, children and individuals with disabilities, making it a fundamental segment of the U.S. health system.

Since Medicaid payments originate from taxpayers, shifts in local claim volumes indicate how public health resources are directed within a community.

The service group labeled Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies includes a set of Medicaid-billed offerings based on care type, managed using HCPCS and CPT code classifications. For this report, each billing code was assigned exclusively to one service group using uniform code prefixes and number ranges. This enabled the aggregation of related services—avoiding redundancies and supporting reliable category rankings across years.

Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies placed fourth among Medicaid payment categories in Jena in 2024, despite a general increase in spending across several groups.

On a statewide level in Louisiana, the Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies segment ranked fifth for Medicaid payments during 2024.

Over the five years preceding 2024, Jena saw Medicaid payments for Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies climb by $81,430, or 49.4%. Growth rates accelerated at points, notably between 2022 and 2023.

Though payments for this category of care spanned the entire city, spending was particularly concentrated in a handful of ZIP codes. During 2024, ZIP code 71342 led with $246,373 in such Medicaid payments, making up 100% of the reported category expenditures for Jena that year.

Within Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies, a select group of billing codes received most payments.

Compared to the category’s 14.8% increase in Jena from 2023 to 2024, all Medicaid claim categories in the city collectively grew by 10.5% during the same time frame.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the combined state and federal Medicaid expenditures reached an estimated $871.7 billion during fiscal 2023, forming about 18% of the nation’s health spending. That represents a sharp rise from roughly $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This increase equates to total growth of around 40% in several years, prompted by heightened enrollment and increased utilization during and after the pandemic.

In recent years, federal budget measures approved under the Trump administration have introduced proposals to trim Medicaid funding and restructure the program. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is expected to cut over $1 trillion from federal Medicaid funding over the upcoming decade. Policy shifts, such as work requirements and higher cost-sharing, could lead to coverage reductions for some. States would likely absorb more costs as the program’s federal share is capped, even though Medicaid continues as a significant source of coverage for many 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.