Lawndale sees $794,969 in Medicaid payments for Procedures / Professional Services in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Lawndale submitted claims amounting to $794,969 for services within the Procedures / Professional Services category, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represented a 65.5% rise from 2023, when local providers billed $480,427 for these services.

Medicaid is a public insurance initiative managed by each state and backed by joint federal and state funding. The program serves low-income people and families, older adults, children, and those with disabilities, and is a core component of the U.S. health care system.

Given that Medicaid funding comes from taxpayers, increases or decreases in local billing highlight how public health care funds get allocated within a city.

The Procedures / Professional Services category encompasses a set of Medicaid-funded services grouped by type of care, as determined by standardized HCPCS and CPT code designations. For this report, service codes were assigned to single categories using consistent code prefixes and ranges so that similar services could be analyzed together, reducing double counting and maintaining clear longitudinal rankings.

While Medicaid expenditures grew in several service lines, Procedures / Professional Services was the third largest category in Lawndale by total payment in 2024.

Statewide in California, Procedures / Professional Services came in sixth among all Medicaid categories by payment total in 2024.

Between 2019 and 2024, Medicaid payments linked to Procedures / Professional Services in Lawndale climbed by $777,086—or 4345.5%. Spending increased particularly quickly during select periods, with major jumps in both 2021 and 2023.

Although distribution of Procedures / Professional Services claims ran citywide, payments were mainly focused in a small number of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 90260 was the top area, reporting $794,968 billed for this category. Altogether, the leading ZIP code represented 100% of all Procedures / Professional Services Medicaid payments in Lawndale that year.

Additionally, within the Procedures / Professional Services category, most Medicaid payments were centered around a small group of billing codes.

For perspective, Medicaid expenditures for Procedures / Professional Services in Lawndale surged 65.5% from 2023 to 2024, substantially outpacing the citywide rise of 12.4% across all Medicaid claim categories over the same time.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data show that federal and state spending together on Medicaid reached approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023—a sum representing nearly 18% of all national health spending and an increase from about $613.5 billion in 2019, ahead of the COVID-19 crisis.

This growth equals about 40% in just several years, due mainly to expanded enrollments and greater demand on services during and following the pandemic.

Recent federal budget actions during the Trump administration brought forward proposals to substantially shrink federal funding for Medicaid and remake core elements of the program. Notably, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is expected to slash federal Medicaid funding by over $1 trillion across 10 years and introduces policies, such as work mandates and higher payments from recipients, which could diminish access and funding for some. These changes are forecasted to shift more financial responsibility to the states and slow growth in federal Medicaid aid, even as millions of Americans rely on the coverage.

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.

The data presented was sourced from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. View the original dataset here.