Ambulance and transport-related Medicaid payments in Oak Park total $2,182,216 for 2024

Data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows that Medicaid providers in Oak Park billed $2,182,216 for services in the Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies category in 2024. This represents a 6.5% increase over 2023, when $2,048,853 was billed for the same services.

Medicaid, a public health insurance program managed by states and jointly funded by both federal and state governments, offers coverage to low-income residents, seniors, children, and people with disabilities. The program is a major component of the nation’s health care system.

Taxpayers ultimately fund Medicaid payments, so shifts in local claim levels can indicate how health care resources are distributed across communities.

The “Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies” category groups together Medicaid-billed services defined by the type of care, organized using standardized HCPCS and CPT code structures. For analysis, each billing code was placed into a single service category aligned by code prefixes and number ranges. This approach allows related services to be grouped, avoids double counting, and maintains accurate rankings over time.

Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies was the second-highest Medicaid payment category in Oak Park for 2024, among several categories that saw spending growth.

Statewide in Illinois, this category also held the second rank by total Medicaid payments in 2024.

Over the five-year span ending in 2024, Medicaid payments for the Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies category in Oak Park rose by $984,550, or 82.2%. Increases were especially notable in 2020 and 2022, with periods of quicker growth.

Although distributed throughout Oak Park, almost all 2024 Medicaid payments for Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies were concentrated in just a few ZIP codes. ZIP code 60301 accounted for $2,182,215, making up 100% of these Medicaid payments in the city that year.

Within the category, a small number of individual billing codes made up the majority of Medicaid payments.

Looking at year-over-year trends, Medicaid payments in this category climbed 6.5% in Oak Park from 2023 to 2024, compared with a 1.5% overall increase in all Medicaid claim categories across the city during the same period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, total Medicaid spending from federal and state sources reached about $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023. That was roughly 18% of total U.S. health expenditures, a sharp increase from $613.5 billion in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This change reflects nearly 40% growth in spending over just a few years, caused primarily by greater enrollment and usage during and after the pandemic.

Recent federal budget actions under the Trump administration have brought significant efforts to shrink federal Medicaid funding and revise the structure of the program. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is set to reduce federal Medicaid spending by over $1 trillion over 10 years and introduces measures like work requirements and more cost-sharing for beneficiaries. These changes are expected to move additional program costs to states and could constrain the growth of federal Medicaid assistance, even as millions continue to depend on its coverage.

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.