Rome’s Medicaid payments for radiology procedures total $3,166,768 in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid expenditures for services within the Radiology Procedures category in Rome totaled $3,166,768, according to information from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This amount reflected a 3.4% uptick compared with 2023, when $3,061,927 was billed for these procedures.

Medicaid is an insurance program operated at the state level and funded by federal and state governments together. It offers health coverage to eligible low-income individuals and families, older adults, children, and people with disabilities, remaining a key component of the nation’s health care landscape.

Since Medicaid funding is derived from taxpayers, local changes in billing reflect how public health care resources are distributed throughout a community.

The “Radiology Procedures” service grouping captures a defined set of services based on specific HCPCS and CPT code allocations. This assessment placed each code into a particular category through set code prefixes and numerical ranges, so services could be grouped accurately, double counting would be avoided, and longitudinal rankings would stay consistent.

Across various Medicaid service segments, spending was on the rise, with Radiology Procedures placing second by total Medicaid payments in Rome in 2024.

Statewide, Radiology Procedures was the sixth-highest category in Georgia for Medicaid payments that year.

Looking at the five-year span before 2024, Medicaid reimbursements for Radiology Procedures in Rome climbed $1,098,174—an increase of 53.1%. Certain intervals saw accelerated spending, including notable annual gains in 2023 and 2022.

Spending in this care category, while distributed citywide, was predominantly concentrated in select ZIP codes. During 2024, the ZIP codes with the largest Medicaid payments for Radiology Procedures included 30161, with $3,158,140, and 30165, totaling $8,627. Together, these two areas made up all Medicaid payments for radiology procedures in Rome during 2024.

Within this service group, Medicaid payments were also focused among a relatively small cluster of billing codes.

A comparative look shows that Medicaid payments for Radiology Procedures in Rome grew by 3.4% from 2023 to 2024—while citywide, Medicaid claim payments increased by 6.7% across all service categories in the same period.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data show that combined federal and state Medicaid expenditures reached approximately $871.7 billion in the 2023 fiscal year. That figure comprised 18% of national health spending, rising rapidly from the 2019 total of about $613.5 billion before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This growth represents an increase of roughly 40% in a few years, with much of the surge attributed to higher enrollment and utilization around and after the pandemic era.

Federal budget legislation during the Trump administration has proposed significant changes to federal Medicaid funding and the structure of the program. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which became law in 2025, is forecast to reduce federal Medicaid support by over $1 trillion in the next decade and introduces measures such as work requirements and increased cost-sharing obligations that may reduce access and funding for some participants. These measures are anticipated to transfer additional costs to states and cap future federal Medicaid growth, though the program continues to impact millions nationwide.

Note: HCPCS codes are provided for contextual clarity. Totals and rankings discussed in this report rely on grouped services, not on the individual billing codes.

The data presented here is drawn from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. The original dataset can be accessed here.