Stevenson Ranch Medicaid spending on procedures, professional services tops $2M in 2024

Data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database show that Medicaid providers in Stevenson Ranch charged $2,075,131 in 2024 for services within the Procedures / Professional Services category. This was a 3% rise compared with 2023, when claims for the same category reached $2,015,250.

Medicaid is a state-administered public insurance program funded by both federal and state governments. The program provides coverage for low-income residents, seniors, children, and individuals with disabilities and represents a major component of the U.S. health care landscape.

Local shifts in Medicaid billing reflect how taxpayer-funded health care spending is distributed within a community.

The Procedures / Professional Services category groups Medicaid claims based on the type of care delivered, categorized by standardized HCPCS and CPT code ranges. For the purposes of this report, each billing code fell into a single identified service group through common coding prefixes and number ranges, aligning related work to enable measurable analysis and prevent duplicate counts over time.

Spending rose across multiple service categories; however, in 2024, Procedures / Professional Services led all categories in Stevenson Ranch by total Medicaid payments.

Statewide in California, the Procedures / Professional Services category ranked as the sixth-largest source of Medicaid payments in 2024.

Over the five years preceding 2024, Medicaid spending in Stevenson Ranch for Procedures / Professional Services grew by $635,750, or 23.5%. Strong year-over-year growth occurred in certain years, particularly 2023 and 2020.

While spending within the category took place throughout Stevenson Ranch, the majority of Medicaid payments originated from a small group of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 91381 contributed the full $2,075,131 in category payments, making up 100% of the relevant claims within the city that year.

Medicaid payments in Procedures / Professional Services also clustered among certain specific billing codes within the larger category.

In Stevenson Ranch, payments connected to Procedures / Professional Services increased by 3% from 2023 to 2024. By contrast, total Medicaid payments across all claim types in the city went up by 3.1% over the same period.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports that national Medicaid spending by the federal and state governments combined reached approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, making up about 18% of overall national health outlays. This is a sharp increase from the $613.5 billion spent in 2019 before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The roughly 40% increase over those years was mainly the result of rising Medicaid enrollment and increased use of medical services during and after the pandemic.

Federal budget changes enacted under the Trump administration included large-scale plans to reduce federal Medicaid contributions and revamp how the program functions. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed into law in 2025, is estimated to cut federal Medicaid expenditures by more than $1 trillion over ten years while introducing measures such as work requirements and cost-sharing, which could lower both funding and participation for certain enrollees. These adjustments are anticipated to shift more of the Medicaid funding burden onto states and potentially restrict how much federal support grows, despite the program serving tens of millions of people 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.