Mansura Medicaid alcohol and drug abuse treatment payments rise to $25,143 in 2024

Data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows Mansura Medicaid providers submitted $25,143 in claims for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment services in 2024. This amount represents a 67.4% increase compared with 2023, when providers billed $15,019 for these services.

Medicaid is a state-administered and jointly federally and state-financed public health insurance program. It covers eligible low-income families and individuals, seniors, children, as well as people with disabilities, making it a central piece of the national health care structure.

Because Medicaid funding sources are public, shifts in community-level billing help show how health care dollars are distributed locally.

The “Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment” category includes a range of Medicaid-eligible services grouped by type of care, based on HCPCS and CPT code standards. To ensure accuracy in tracking and avoid double counting, the analysis assigned each billing code to one service category, using consistent prefixes and code ranges to group similar services for ranking and year-to-year comparison.

Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment was the third largest Medicaid service category by payments in Mansura for 2024. Other categories also recorded rising expenditures.

Statewide in Louisiana, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment was the fourth leading category by total Medicaid expenditures in 2024.

During the five years ending in 2024, local Medicaid payments in this category grew by $25,143, or 0%. Growth rates accelerated during some periods, including a substantial year-over-year rise in both 2023 and 2022.

Spending on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment care was distributed throughout Mansura but primarily concentrated in a single ZIP code. The tallest share in 2024 went to ZIP code 71350, with $25,142 billed; overall, the top 1 ZIP codes accounted for all Medicaid payments under this category in Mansura that year.

Payments within the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment group were further consolidated within a small set of specific billing codes.

Compared to the 67.4% year-to-year gain for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment from 2023 to 2024 in Mansura, Medicaid spending across all claim categories locally grew by 8% in the same period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Medicaid’s federal and state dollars totaled roughly $871.7 billion in the fiscal year 2023, which equaled about 18% of total U.S. health spending, significantly higher compared to $613.5 billion in 2019, before COVID-19 hit.

That jump equals roughly 40% growth in just a few years, driven by expanded membership and greater use of the program during and after the pandemic phase.

Recent federal budget bills passed during the Trump administration have also contained major plans to curb federal Medicaid funding and adjust the program’s structure. Examples include the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, which is forecast to cut more than $1 trillion in federal Medicaid spending over the decade and includes requirements like work mandates and higher out-of-pocket costs that could limit some beneficiaries’ access. These changes are likely to shift increased financial responsibility to states while putting constraints on federal Medicaid growth, though millions of Americans will remain in the program.

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.