Woodhaven Medicaid ambulance and transport payments increase to $33,669 in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Woodhaven billed $33,669 for services grouped under the Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies category, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This amount marked an increase of 14% over 2023, when providers billed $29,523 for the same services.

Medicaid is administered by each state and financed with both federal and state government funds. It provides health cover for low-income groups, the elderly, children, and individuals with disabilities, making it one of the largest programs in the U.S. health care landscape.

Because Medicaid outlays use taxpayer resources, changes in local provider billing illustrate how publicly funded medical spending is allocated throughout the community.

The “Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies” category covers a set of Medicaid-billed services grouped by care type, based on standard HCPCS and CPT coding. For this report, each billing code appears in one service category, using consistent prefixes and number ranges, allowing similar services to be aggregated and ensuring accurate ranking comparison across years.

Medicaid costs increased among several service categories, with Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies placing third by overall Medicaid payouts in Woodhaven in 2024.

Statewide in Michigan, Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies was seventh among Medicaid spending categories for 2024.

Between the previous five years and 2024, Medicaid payments for Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies in Woodhaven rose by $28,859, representing 600% growth. Spending accelerated at various points, with significant year-over-year jumps seen in 2022 and 2021.

Though expenditures for Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies were distributed across Woodhaven, payments primarily concentrated in select ZIP codes. For 2024, ZIP code 48183 had the greatest payment total, at $33,668. This single ZIP code represented 100% of Medicaid-associated payments for this service category in Woodhaven during the year.

Payments within the Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies category also focused on a small section of specific billing codes.

For reference, the 14% increase between 2024 and 2023 in Medicaid payments for this category in Woodhaven compares with a 34.4% rise across all Medicaid billing categories in the city over the same time period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined federal and state spending for Medicaid reached roughly $871.7 billion for fiscal 2023, accounting for approximately 18% of overall U.S. health expenditures and up from $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This change amounts to an estimated 40% spending increase over just a few years, with most of the growth attributed to more enrollees and greater service use during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Major federal budget bills passed in the Trump administration have introduced substantial reductions in federal Medicaid allocations and new structural reforms. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is forecast to reduce federal Medicaid spending by over $1 trillion in the next decade. It adds requirements like work verifications and higher cost participation that may limit coverage for certain recipients and shift more fiscal responsibility to states, although Medicaid continues to cover tens of millions 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.