Wenonah Medicaid payments for alcohol and drug abuse treatment rise to $2,409,318 in 2024

In 2024, Wenonah Medicaid providers submitted $2,409,318 in claims for services assigned to the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment group, based on U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending data. This sum reflects an increase of 17.2% from 2023, when these services accounted for $2,056,590 in Medicaid claims.

Medicaid, which is run by states with joint federal and state funding, covers low-income people and families, seniors, children, and those with disabilities, making it one of the country’s largest health insurance programs. For more on Medicaid’s structure, see the Commonwealth Fund explanation.

As Medicaid payments draw on taxpayer funds, trends in local billing levels provide insight into public health funding distributions at the community level.

The term “Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment” denotes a set of Medicaid-reimbursed services organized using HCPCS and CPT code sets. For this report, each code corresponds to only one category via uniform prefixes and number ranges, supporting clean tracking across years and skipping duplication, so rankings stay clear.

Alongside rising costs in other service areas, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment led all categories by total Medicaid spending in Wenonah for 2024.

Statewide in New Jersey, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment also topped the Medicaid payment categories for the year.

Putting this in broader context, Medicaid dollars connected to the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment designation in Wenonah jumped $1,741,494—260.8%—over the five years preceding 2024. 2023 and 2022 saw standout annual increases as that pace sped up.

Spending on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment spanned Wenonah, but was mostly concentrated within certain ZIP codes. For 2024, claims for ZIP code 08090 came to $2,409,317. Altogether, the leading 1 ZIP codes represented 100% of Medicaid Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment spending in Wenonah for the year.

Medicaid payments for this treatment area were focused within a select set of billing codes.

Comparatively, while Wenonah’s Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Medicaid claims jumped 17.2% between 2024 and 2023, all other Medicaid claim categories together rose 16.8% during that span in the city.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined Medicaid expenditures approached $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023 between state and federal outlays—almost 18% of all national health spending. This was up from $613.5 billion in 2019 before the pandemic.

That gain is about a 40% expansion over several years, influenced primarily by greater enrollment and service use tied to the pandemic and after.

Recent federal budgets from the Trump administration introduced plans to reduce the federal Medicaid contribution and change program rules. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, seeks to shrink federal Medicaid funding by over $1 trillion across a decade and sets new conditions such as added work requirements and cost-sharing rules, which could lower access and funding for certain enrollees. States are expected to bear more costs under these changes and face restricted growth in federal Medicaid dollars—even as enrollment remains broad.

Note: HCPCS codes appear in context for category reference. Rankings and aggregation for categories in this report rely on grouping standardized services rather than individual billing numbers, which avoids overlap.

This data and analysis draw on information from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. Access to the dataset can be found here.