Pace Medicaid spending on anesthesia services rises to $169,771 in 2024

Pace Medicaid providers billed $169,771 for anesthesia services in 2024, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This figure represents a 6.9% rise from 2023, when $158,871 was billed for the same service category.

Medicaid, a public insurance program administered by states and funded through joint federal and state contributions, provides coverage to low-income people, families, seniors, children and those with disabilities, making it one of the key segments of the U.S. health care system.

Since the program is publicly funded, shifts in local Medicaid billing highlight changes in how taxpayer-supported health dollars are distributed within a community.

The “Anesthesia” service category is composed of services grouped by type of care, as determined by standardized HCPCS and CPT codes. For this report, each billing code was linked to just one service category using consistent prefix and numerical ranges, letting analysts examine similar services collectively while preventing multiple counts of the same procedures and maintaining accurate trends over time.

Among all Medicaid categories, Anesthesia ranked third in Pace for total Medicaid payments made in 2024.

Throughout Florida, Anesthesia ranked as the 18th highest by total Medicaid payments in 2024.

Between 2019 and 2024, Medicaid payments associated with Anesthesia services in Pace increased by $169,771, a 0% total change. Payment growth accelerated in some years, with significant annual increases noted in 2023 and 2022.

Though Anesthesia-related payments were distributed across the area, most were concentrated in specific ZIP codes. For 2024, ZIP code 32571 accounted for $169,771, representing 100% of all Medicaid payments tied to Anesthesia in Pace.

Within Anesthesia, the majority of Medicaid spending was tied to only a few billing codes in the area.

Comparatively, Medicaid Anesthesia payments in Pace rose 6.9% from 2023 to 2024, while overall Medicaid claims for all categories in the city increased by 7.9% in the same period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, total federal and state Medicaid spending reached about $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023. That amount represented roughly 18% of the country’s total health expenditures, up from $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This near-40% rise in spending over several years is attributed primarily to increased enrollment and higher use of medical services during and after the pandemic period.

Recent federal budget laws under the Trump administration included major proposals to limit federal Medicaid contributions and revise the structure of the program. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is expected to trim federal Medicaid spending by over $1 trillion in the next decade through new measures such as work requirements and more cost-sharing. These policies could reduce coverage and shift more expense to state governments, restricting the rate of federal Medicaid growth even as millions of Americans continue to rely on 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.