Medicaid spending for alcohol and drug abuse treatment in North Logan rises 605.6% to $1.5 million in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in North Logan billed $1,501,953 for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment services, based on data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This reflects a 605.6% jump from 2023, when local providers filed $212,863 in claims for these services.

Medicaid is a public insurance initiative operated by the states and funded by both federal and state governments. It serves low-income residents, families, seniors, children, and individuals with disabilities, placing it among the largest health programs in the country.

Shifts in local Medicaid billing amounts indicate how public health funds are used within the community, as these payments are funded by taxpayers.

The “Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment” category encompasses services billed to Medicaid based on standardized HCPCS and CPT codes, organized by care type. For the analysis, billing codes were assigned to a single service group with methodical prefixes and numeric ranges to ensure comparability and prevent double counting, which maintains an accurate ranking over time.

Although spending rose across several service groups, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment had the highest total Medicaid payments of any category in North Logan for 2024.

Statewide, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment ranked second overall for total Medicaid payments in Utah for 2024.

Looking at a five-year span ending in 2024, Medicaid payments for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment in North Logan increased by $1,501,953, or 0%. Some years, including 2023 and 2022, saw especially sharp year-over-year increases.

Spending on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment was spread across North Logan, but payments were focused in just a few ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 84341 represented $1,501,952 in Medicaid payments for this category, with the leading ZIP code accounting for 100% of the city’s Medicaid spending on these services that year.

Within this category, payments were also concentrated among a narrower set of billing codes.

Compared to the 605.6% growth in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment payments between 2024 and 2023, overall Medicaid claim categories in North Logan grew by 282.5% over the same period.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services report that federal and state Medicaid expenditures were approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, an estimated 18% of all U.S. health spending. That’s a significant rise from roughly $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This growth of about 40% over a few years was driven in large part by higher enrollment and increased usage during and after the pandemic.

Under recent federal budget laws enacted during the Trump administration, major proposals have aimed to decrease federal Medicaid funding and change how the program is structured. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed into law in 2025, is projected to cut federal Medicaid spending by over $1 trillion in the next decade, introducing measures like work requirements and higher cost-sharing that could reduce both coverage and funding for some recipients. These policy changes are anticipated to place more cost responsibility on states and curtail growth in federal Medicaid spending even as coverage continues for tens of millions of Americans.

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.