Manassas Medicaid spending for durable medical equipment climbs 15.7% in 2024

Manassas Medicaid providers billed a total of $480,399 for Durable Medical Equipment services in 2024, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending data showed. This represented a 15.7% rise from the previous year, when claims amounted to $415,260 for the same service group.

Medicaid operates as a state-run public health insurance program with funding shared by both federal and state governments, covering eligible low-income people, seniors, children, and individuals with disabilities. It remains among the nation’s largest health care programs.

Because taxpayers fund Medicaid, local billing shifts illustrate how communities utilize and allocate public health care funding.

The “Durable Medical Equipment” category groups together Medicaid-billed services by the nature of care, organized using HCPCS and CPT code groupings. For this research, billing codes were distributed into specific service categories using code prefixes and numeric ranges to accurately track trends over time without overlap or double-counting.

As Medicaid spending grew across multiple categories, Durable Medical Equipment stood as the ninth largest by Medicaid payments in Manassas during 2024.

Across all of Virginia, Durable Medical Equipment ranked fourteenth in total Medicaid payment category value for the same year.

Over the five years prior to 2024, Medicaid spending linked to Durable Medical Equipment in Manassas rose by $416,627, a gain of 653.3%. Certain intervals saw particular surges in this spending, with major yearly increases noted in both 2022 and 2020.

While distribution of Durable Medical Equipment spending touched many parts of the city, the highest payments appeared in a handful of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 20109 led with $480,398 in Medicaid payments associated with this category—accounting for the entire Medicaid total for Durable Medical Equipment in Manassas that year.

Most Medicaid payments under the Durable Medical Equipment category related to just a limited number of billing codes.

Comparing Manassas, Medicaid spending connected to Durable Medical Equipment rose 15.7% from 2023 to 2024, compared with a citywide rate of 3.8% growth across all Medicaid claim categories over the same span.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports that combined federal and state Medicaid expenditures totaled about $871.7 billion in the 2023 fiscal year, making up roughly 18% of total national health spending—a significant jump compared with $613.5 billion in 2019, before the pandemic.

This represents an increase of about 40% over just a few years, led by rising coverage as enrollment and use surged during and following the pandemic era.

Recent legislative action under the Trump administration introduced major changes to federal Medicaid financing and structure. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is anticipated to cut federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion over the coming decade, implementing work requirements and expanded cost-sharing. These measures may limit coverage for some beneficiaries and shift costs to the states, scaling back growth in federal support, while Medicaid 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.