Wood Dale’s Medicaid spending for Surgery services reaches $1.37 million in 2024

Wood Dale Medicaid providers billed $1,369,051 for Surgery services in 2024, according to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represented a 9.7% rise from 2023, when claims in the same category totaled $1,247,794.

Medicaid, a public health insurance program operated by states and funded jointly by federal and state governments, covers low-income individuals and families, seniors, children, and those with disabilities. It stands as one of the largest elements of the U.S. health care infrastructure.

Spending changes in Medicaid billing show how taxpayer-funded public care dollars shift within local communities.

The “Surgery” category encompasses a range of Medicaid-billed services defined by care type, relying on standardized HCPCS and CPT code groupings. For this report, each code was limited to a single service grouping with consistent prefixes and numeric ranges to prevent double-counting and uphold reliable rankings by year.

Among Medicaid service groups, Surgery placed fourth in 2024 for total payments in Wood Dale.

Across Illinois, Surgery ranked 18th by total Medicaid payments for the year.

In the five years before 2024, Medicaid payments for Surgery services in Wood Dale grew by $1,197,855, an increase of 699.7%. The growth accelerated at points, with large annual rises in 2021 and 2023.

While Surgery-related payments were distributed throughout Wood Dale, most of the funds were concentrated within a few ZIP codes. In 2024, the 60191 ZIP code received $1,369,050, accounting for 100% of Medicaid Surgery category payments in the city that year.

Medicaid Surgery payments in Wood Dale were also concentrated in a small set of individual billing codes.

Notably, the 9.7% increase for Surgery payments from 2023 to 2024 compared to a 10.1% change across all Medicaid service categories in the city over the same period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined federal and state Medicaid spending totaled about $871.7 billion during fiscal year 2023, making up roughly 18% of all national health expenditures, up significantly from $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This $258 billion increase reflects about 40% growth in a few years, primarily driven by enrollment gains and rising utilization during and after the pandemic period.

Recent federal budget legislation under the Trump administration has featured substantial proposals to reduce federal Medicaid funding and change the program’s structure. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed into law in 2025, is projected to cut over $1 trillion in federal Medicaid funding over the next 10 years while introducing policies like work requirements and increased cost-sharing. These changes are expected to raise states’ funding burden and slow federal Medicaid growth, even as the program continues to cover 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.