Summerton’s Medicaid payments for medical and surgical supplies climb to $14,826 in 2024

In 2024, Summerton health care providers billed $14,826 to Medicaid under the Medical And Surgical Supplies category, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This total was up 16% from 2023, when claims for the same services reached $12,776.

Medicaid, the joint federal and state program offering public health insurance, supports low-income families and individuals, seniors, children, and people with disabilities. It is one of the main components of the nation’s health care system. For an overview of how the program is financed, visit this resource.

Since Medicaid’s budget is publicly funded, fluctuations in local billing offer insights into community-level public health care spending.

The “Medical And Surgical Supplies” grouping includes Medicaid services categorized by care type, aligned with standardized HCPCS and CPT code lists. Each billing code in this analysis was assigned to one service type by using matching code prefixes and number ranges. This ensured accurate year-over-year tracking and eliminated service overlap.

Though Medicaid spending rose across numerous service lines, Medical And Surgical Supplies led Summerton in total Medicaid dollars paid in 2024.

Statewide in South Carolina, Medical And Surgical Supplies ranked 15th for total Medicaid payments in 2024.

Across the five years ending in 2024, Medicaid spending connected to Medical And Surgical Supplies in Summerton rose by $3,066, an increase of 26.1%. The pace of growth varied, with notable jumps observed year over year during 2022 and 2022.

Spending for Medical And Surgical Supplies was distributed across Summerton but focused mainly within a few ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 29148 accounted for $14,826—representing 100% of all related Medicaid payments in the city for this service category.

Payments in this category were also aggregated among a small set of Medicaid billing codes.

Comparing growth rates, Medical And Surgical Supplies Medicaid payments in Summerton increased by 16% from 2023 to 2024, while overall Medicaid spending for all claim categories in the city grew by 8.3% during the same period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, federal and state Medicaid outlays were approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023—about 18% of national health expenditures—significantly higher than $613.5 billion in 2019, before COVID-19.

This represents an increase of about 40% in those few years, primarily linked to higher enrollment and medical service use during and after the pandemic.

Major budget proposals during the Trump administration sought to trim federal Medicaid funding and change how the program is structured. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is estimated to reduce federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion over the next decade. The law introduces new work requirements and cost-sharing rules that could restrict program funding and coverage for certain groups, transferring greater fiscal responsibility to individual states.

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.