Glen Ellyn Medicaid payments for alcohol and drug treatment rise to $22,572 in 2024

Providers in Glen Ellyn billed Medicaid $22,572 in 2024 for services categorized as Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending data. This reflects a 23.6% rise compared to 2023, when $18,268 was billed for the same category of services.

Medicaid, managed at the state level and funded by both state and federal governments, insures low-income individuals and families, seniors, children, and people with disabilities, and plays a significant role in the nation's health care system.

Because Medicaid funding comes from taxpayers, shifts in local billing patterns highlight how health care resources are distributed within a community.

The "Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment" designation groups Medicaid-billed services based on the type of care provided, using standardized HCPCS and CPT coding systems. Each code was assigned to a single service type for this analysis, which enabled grouping similar services while ensuring there is no double counting and maintaining accurate long-term rankings.

While other Medicaid service categories also showed spending growth, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment ranked as the fourth-largest category in Glen Ellyn by total Medicaid payments in 2024.

Statewide, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment stood as the third largest category by Medicaid payments in Illinois for 2024.

From 2019 to 2024, Glen Ellyn's Medicaid payments for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment services increased by $22,572, marking 0% overall growth. Periods such as 2023 and 2021 saw accelerated annual increases in spending.

In Glen Ellyn, although these payments were used throughout the area, they were heavily concentrated in a small number of ZIP codes. For 2024, ZIP code 60137 represented the entirety of such Medicaid payments—$22,572. In total, the top ZIP code accounted for 100% of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Medicaid spending in the city during the year.

Within the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment category, most Medicaid funding was linked to a small subset of billing codes.

In a broader view, Medicaid payments for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment in Glen Ellyn grew by 23.6% from 2023 to 2024, while Medicaid claims across all service types in the city increased 19% during the same period.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports that total federal and state Medicaid spending nationwide reached approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, reflecting about 18% of all national health expenditures, which was up considerably from $613.5 billion in 2019 prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This rise equates to roughly 40% growth over several years, largely due to a growth in enrollment and increased medical usage during and in the aftermath of the pandemic.

Federal budget legislation signed during the Trump administration has featured major proposals to scale back federal funding for Medicaid and alter how the program operates. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” passed in 2025, is projected to reduce federal Medicaid expenditures by over $1 trillion in the coming decade, introducing work requirements and higher cost-sharing, both of which could decrease coverage and federal matching to certain beneficiaries. These provisions will likely shift added responsibility to states, potentially slowing the pace of federal Medicaid funding growth, while the program continues to enroll tens of millions nationwide.

Note: HCPCS codes are listed for context in the outlined category. Article rankings and totals reflect standardized service groupings, not individual codes.

Information cited is from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. You can locate the source dataset here.