Eupora Medicaid payments for DME Medicare contractors rise to $2,963 in 2024

Data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows that Medicaid providers in Eupora billed $2,963 in 2024 for services under the Durable medical equipment (DME) Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) category. This total reflects a 407.4% jump compared with the $584 billed for that service in 2023.

Medicaid, a public insurance program funded through a partnership between state and federal governments, covers eligible low-income individuals, families, seniors, children, and people with disabilities, and serves as a major component of the nation’s health care system.

As taxpayer funding supports Medicaid, changes in how much local providers bill can reveal shifts in the allocation of public health care resources in a given area.

The “Durable medical equipment (DME) Medicare administrative contractors (MACs)” grouping refers to Medicaid-billed services categorized by the type of care provided. Standardized HCPCS and CPT code groupings simplify this classification, with each billing code placed into one service group to avoid overlap and maintain consistent trend tracking over time.

Spending across multiple Medicaid service categories increased, with Durable medical equipment (DME) Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) ranking 10th by payment volume in Eupora for 2024.

Statewide in Mississippi, this category placed 17th for total Medicaid spending during 2024.

From the five-year period ending with 2024, Eupora’s Medicaid payments in the Durable medical equipment (DME) Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) category rose by $554, up 23%. This growth rate accelerated at certain points, especially in 2021 and 2022.

Although spending within this category was distributed throughout Eupora, payment amounts were highly concentrated, with ZIP code 39744 alone accounting for $2,962 of the total in 2024. This single ZIP code made up 100% of the Medicaid spending in this service group for the city that year.

A small set of billing codes comprised most Medicaid outlays within the Durable medical equipment (DME) Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) category.

To compare, payments assigned to this category in Eupora grew 407.4% between 2024 and the prior year, far above the 22.7% increase across all Medicaid service categories in the city in that timeframe.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined state and federal Medicaid payments totaled about $871.7 billion in the 2023 fiscal year, or around 18% of all U.S. health care spending, following sharp growth from roughly $613.5 billion in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This represents a nearly 40% increase in just a few years, largely due to expanded enrollment and increased service use during and following the pandemic era.

The Trump administration’s federal budget legislation introduced considerable proposals for reduced Medicaid spending and structural changes to the program. One such measure, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed in 2025, is set to reduce federal Medicaid funding by more than $1 trillion over the next decade and implement work requirements and higher cost-sharing that could limit coverage and spending for some recipients. These shifts are expected to transfer greater cost burdens to states and potentially restrain further federal funding growth, even as Medicaid remains a safety net for millions.

Note: HCPCS codes are listed here to provide category context. The totals and rankings use standardized groupings of services rather than individual codes.

Information for this report comes from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. Source details are available here.