Medicaid payments for ambulance and transport services in Wampsville reach $138,685 in 2024

In 2024, data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows Wampsville Medicaid providers billed $138,685 for Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies—an increase of 198.9% from 2023, when $46,404 was billed for these services.

Medicaid is a public health insurance program overseen by states and funded by both federal and state governments. The program serves low-income individuals and families, seniors, children and those with disabilities, establishing itself as a major component of the nation’s health care system.

Because taxpayer dollars support Medicaid payments, shifts in local billing levels show how public health care funding is used within a community.

The “Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies” designation encompasses a range of Medicaid-billed services characterized by the type of care given, defined using standardized HCPCS and CPT code groupings. Each billing code was sorted into one service category in this analysis by consistent code prefixes and numeric ranges, so related services could be analyzed together without duplicate counting and with accurate rankings over time.

In 2024, Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies ranked as the top Medicaid payment category in Wampsville, even as Medicaid spending grows across multiple service types.

Statewide, Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies was the eighth-highest category for Medicaid payments in New York in 2024.

Looking at the five-year period ending in 2024, Wampsville’s Medicaid payments for this category rose by $138,685, or 0%. In certain periods, spending increased rapidly, with notably large annual jumps in 2023 and 2022.

Though these payments were spread across the city, the majority was located in a small number of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 13163 accounted for $138,684 of the total, so that the top ZIP accounted for 100% of all Medicaid payments tied to Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies in Wampsville.

Spending within this category was also focused among a small group of billing codes assigned under Medicaid.

Comparatively, Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies Medicaid payments in Wampsville grew 198.9% from 2023 to 2024, outpacing the 85.4% increase seen across all Medicaid claim types in the city during the same period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, total Medicaid spending funded with both federal and state money was about $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, making up approximately 18% of national health expenditures. That figure rose from around $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This represents growth of about 40% over several years, largely due to increased enrollment and greater service use during and after the pandemic.

Recent federal budget laws passed under the Trump administration included measures to significantly decrease federal Medicaid funding and update program rules. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is expected to cut federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion over the next decade and adds policies such as work requirements and higher cost-sharing that could lower coverage and available funding for some Medicaid recipients. These adjustments are projected to place more of the program’s funding obligations on states and may restrain federal Medicaid growth, while the program remains a leading source of health coverage in the U.S.

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.