West Bridgewater Medicaid spending for ambulance and transport services reaches $24,922 in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers billed $24,922 for services classified as Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies in West Bridgewater, per figures from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represented a 33.5% increase over 2023, when $18,671 was billed in this same service category.

Medicaid is a government-backed public health program administered by individual states, with joint funding from state and federal sources . It provides coverage to qualifying low-income people, including families, seniors, children, and those with disabilities, making it a major component of the national health care landscape.

Because taxpayer dollars fund Medicaid, shifts in provider payments reflect how local public health expenditures are distributed.

The “Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies” designation groups Medicaid charges based on the care mode, referencing a set of standardized HCPCS and CPT code blocks. This report assigned every billing code to one defined case type, applying classification based on code prefixes and number intervals to allow similar services to be tracked together for trends—avoiding overlap and enhancing rank accuracy.

Other Medicaid service areas also showed higher total spending, but Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies stood as eighth highest by total Medicaid payment in West Bridgewater for 2024.

Statewide, Massachusetts marked this service category as the eighth highest for Medicaid payments in 2024 as well.

Medicaid reimbursements connected to Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies in West Bridgewater rose by $4,960, or 16.6%, over the five years leading up to 2024. The greatest year-over-year growth occurred in 2020 and 2022.

While expenditures for these services spanned the city, almost all Medicaid payments in 2024 were recorded in ZIP code 02379, showing a pronounced concentration. Altogether, the single leading ZIP code made up 100% of Medicaid reimbursements within this category.

Reimbursements in this Medicaid service area also remained focused in a few discrete billing codes.

Evaluated in context, Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies showed a 33.5% gain from 2023 to 2024, while the citywide rise across all Medicaid billed categories was 21.4% during this period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined federal and state Medicaid spending reached approximately $871.7 billion in the 2023 fiscal year, comprising about 18% of total national health spending, up from roughly $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 emergency.

This change indicates about 40% growth in a span of only a few years, with increased enrollment and greater service use during and after the pandemic as primary drivers.

Trump-era budget policies have targeted large reductions in the federal Medicaid share and program restructuring. One example, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed in 2025, projects to reduce federal Medicaid funds by more than $1 trillion this decade, as work requirements and higher patient cost-sharing are introduced—raising the prospect of reduced eligibility and spending limits for some recipients. These reforms expect to place more responsibility at the state level, limiting expansion of federal Medicaid assistance as the program continues to aid many Americans.

Note: HCPCS codes are listed for context within this service category. The article’s category totals and rankings are based on unified service groupings, not solely on single codes.

Information in this report is sourced from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. Refer to the source data here.