Kellogg Medicaid spending on substance misuse treatment rises to $101,480 in 2024

Medicaid providers in Kellogg billed $101,480 for services categorized as Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment in 2024, according to information from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represented a 45.8% rise from 2023, when providers filed $69,584 in claims for these services.

Medicaid, a public insurance program managed by states and funded by both federal and state governments, covers people with low incomes, seniors, children and individuals with disabilities. It is among the largest segments of the U.S. health care system.

Since Medicaid payments are sourced from taxpayer funds, fluctuations in local billing levels indicate how public health care resources are distributed in a given area.

The “Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment” category includes a collection of Medicaid-billed services defined by care type, with standardized HCPCS and CPT code groupings. This analysis assigned each billing code to a single service category using uniform code prefixes and numerical spans, letting similar services be tracked together without double counting and ensuring consistent ranking across years.

Although there was an increase in Medicaid expenditures across several categories, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment was the third highest by total payments in Kellogg in 2024.

Statewide in Idaho, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment topped the list of Medicaid payments by category in 2024.

Between 2020 and 2024, Medicaid payments in Kellogg for the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment category rose by $59,786, or 143.4%. The rate of growth picked up during select intervals, with significant year-over-year gains reported in 2022 and 2022.

Most spending for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment was concentrated within a few ZIP codes in 2024. The highest Medicaid payments for this service category came from ZIP code 83837, which made up the full $101,480. The top 1 ZIP codes constituted 100% of Medicaid payments for this category in Kellogg that year.

Payments within the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment category were also focused on a small set of individual billing codes.

For comparison, spending on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment in Kellogg increased by 45.8% between 2024 and 2023, while overall Medicaid claims in the city grew by 13.8% during the same timeframe.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, federal and state Medicaid expenditures totaled about $871.7 billion for fiscal year 2023, making up close to 18% of all U.S. health spending. This figure was a substantial increase over the roughly $613.5 billion spent in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

The upward trend marks an expansion of about 40% in a few years, mainly due to higher enrollment and greater service use during and after the pandemic period.

Recent national budget measures implemented during the Trump administration have featured notable plans to cut federal Medicaid spending and change the program’s structure. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is expected to reduce federal Medicaid funding by over $1 trillion over 10 years and introduces elements like work requirements and raised cost-sharing. These modifications could restrict access and funds for certain beneficiaries, transferring additional costs to states while federal support grows more limited, even as Medicaid remains critical for millions of Americans.

Note: HCPCS codes are presented for context within the category. Totals and category rankings in this article derive from standardized service groupings, not from individual billing codes.

Details for this article were sourced from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. The underlying data is available here.