In 2024, providers in Kimberly billed $93,528 to Medicaid for services in the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment category, as reported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This reflects a 75.2% jump compared with 2023, when $53,390 in claims were made for the same care category.
Medicaid, a public health insurance initiative, is administered by states with joint federal and state funding, according to the Commonwealth Fund. It provides coverage for low-income people, seniors, children, and individuals with disabilities, making it a major component of the nation’s health system.
Because taxpayer funding underlies Medicaid, local changes in billing reflect how health dollars are allocated throughout the community.
The “Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment” category groups Medicaid-billed services by type of care, based on standardized HCPCS and CPT code ranges. For the analysis, billing codes were assigned to a single service category with consistent prefixes and numeric groupings to organize related services, prevent duplicate counts and accurately track year-over-year changes.
Although Medicaid saw higher spending across several categories, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment ranked third in Kimberly in 2024 by total Medicaid dollars paid.
Statewide in Idaho, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment was the leading category for Medicaid payments in 2024.
In the five years before 2024, Medicaid payments for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment in Kimberly increased by $93,528, or 0%. Growth was especially notable in some years, with significant increases found in both 2023 and 2022.
Most of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment spending in Kimberly was focused in just a few ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 83341 was responsible for $93,527, representing all Medicaid payments for this category in the city. Thus, the top ZIP code accounted for 100% of related Medicaid spending in Kimberly for the year.
Within this service category, Medicaid payments were driven by a small group of billing codes.
To compare, payments to Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment services in Kimberly rose 75.2% between 2024 and 2023, far outpacing the 4.3% change seen across all Medicaid service categories in the community over the same period.
CMS reports that joint federal and state Medicaid expenditures totaled about $871.7 billion for the 2023 fiscal year, making up about 18% of all U.S. health spending and reflecting a sharp rise from $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 emergency.
This increase marks about 40% growth in only a few years, driven mainly by more enrollees and expanded care use before and after the pandemic.
Recent federal budget changes under the Trump administration have included provisions for deep cuts to Medicaid funding and major program overhauls. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is set to cut federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion over 10 years and introduces new work and cost-sharing requirements likely to decrease program coverage and funding for some recipients. These measures are expected to shift more Medicaid costs to states while limiting future federal cost increases—even as Medicaid covers tens of millions of Americans.
| Year | Total Medicaid Payments | % Change From Previous Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $53,390 | – |
| 2024 | $93,527 | 75.2% |
| Rank | Category | Medicaid Payments | Share of City Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies | $472,693 | 64.7% |
| 2 | Medicine Services and Procedures | $163,293 | 22.4% |
| 3 | Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment | $93,527 | 12.8% |
| 4 | Evaluation and Management | $609 | 0.1% |
| 5 | Procedures / Professional Services | $0 | <0.1% |
| HCPCS Code | Description | Medicaid Payments | Claims |
|---|---|---|---|
| H2014 | Skills train and dev, 15 min | $93,527 | 5 |
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.
