Medicaid spending on Evaluation and Management services in Tunica Resorts climbs to $17,573 in 2024

In Tunica Resorts, Medicaid providers billed a total of $17,573 for Evaluation and Management services in 2024, based on data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. The total reflected an 8.7% growth compared to 2023, when $16,169 was billed for the same classification of services.

Medicaid, a public insurance program operated by the states and financed through a partnership between federal and state governments, provides coverage to low-income populations, seniors, children, and people with disabilities, forming a significant component of the U.S. health care landscape.

Since taxpayer funds support Medicaid payments, community billing levels indicate how public health care expenditures are distributed locally.

The Evaluation and Management category comprises a subset of Medicaid-billed services defined by the setting and nature of care, using prescribed HCPCS and CPT coding groups. For this review, services were grouped into categories by code prefixes and numeric ranges to consistently allocate each bill to a single service category, ensuring accuracy in rankings and totaling while avoiding duplicate counts.

While Medicaid spending increased in multiple categories, Evaluation and Management ranked as the highest-paid category in Tunica Resorts for 2024 Medicaid disbursements.

Evaluation and Management was the third-largest Medicaid category by statewide payments in Mississippi for 2024.

From 2019 through 2024, Medicaid expenditures for the Evaluation and Management category in Tunica Resorts grew by $1,419, or 8.8%. At several intervals, especially in 2021 and 2022, more rapid year-to-year jumps were observed.

Citywide, Evaluation and Management-related spending was not evenly spread, with the concentration of Medicaid payments seen in just a handful of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 38664 alone accounted for $17,572 in Medicaid claims for Evaluation and Management, representing the year’s full amount in the city.

Medicaid billing within the Evaluation and Management category was also narrowly distributed across a few specific billing codes.

For additional context, while Evaluation and Management saw an 8.7% payment increase from 2023 to 2024 in Tunica Resorts, across all Medicaid category claims in the city there was a 31.9% change over the same period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined state and federal Medicaid expenditures reached roughly $871.7 billion for fiscal year 2023. This accounted for about 18% of total U.S. health care spending, representing a substantial rise from approximately $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This translates to a roughly 40% increase over a few years, primarily tied to expanding program enrollment and increased service use during and after the pandemic.

Federal legislation during the Trump administration put forward major reductions to federal Medicaid allocations and redesigned aspects of the program. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is expected to decrease federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion through the coming decade and introduces new work eligibility and increased cost-sharing, policies projected to limit coverage and reduce benefits for some participants. These changes are set to place more financial responsibility on states and could slow the pace of federal Medicaid funding growth, while Medicaid continues to provide for tens of millions nationwide.

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.