Voorhees Medicaid Outpatient PPS payments surge 692.8% to $60,956 in 2024

Voorhees Medicaid providers billed a total of $60,956 for Outpatient PPS services in 2024, data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows. That amount reflects a 692.8% year-over-year increase from 2023, when providers submitted $7,689 in claims in this same category.

Medicaid, a state-administered program jointly funded by federal and state governments, provides health insurance to low-income individuals and families, seniors, children, and people with disabilities, constituting a significant portion of the U.S. health care system. Learn more about funding methods in this explainer.

Taxpayer dollars finance Medicaid payments, meaning shifts in local billing reflect how health care resources are distributed in the area.

The Outpatient PPS category organizes Medicaid billing by care type, identified via standardized groupings of HCPCS and CPT codes. For the purposes of this report, each code was allotted to only one service category using designated prefixes and numeric intervals, ensuring results avoid double-counting and provide clear service comparisons across years.

Although various Medicaid service categories tracked increased payments, Outpatient PPS ranked as Voorhees’s 13th largest Medicaid expenditure by total in 2024.

Statewide, Outpatient PPS was ranked as the 20th largest Medicaid payment category in New Jersey during 2024.

Over the five years ending in 2024, Outpatient PPS Medicaid payments in Voorhees increased by $60,956, or 0%. Notable spending growth occurred within specific periods, with pronounced annual increases reported for both 2023 and 2022.

Spending in this category appeared citywide but primarily concentrated within only a few ZIP codes. For 2024, ZIP code 08043 accounted for $60,956 of the category’s Medicaid payments. Altogether, this was 100% of Outpatient PPS-related Medicaid funds in Voorhees that year.

Within the Outpatient PPS segment, payments centered around just a handful of unique billing codes.

Comparatively, Outpatient PPS Medicaid payments in Voorhees jumped 692.8% between 2024 and 2023, while overall Medicaid spending across all claim types in the area grew by 11.6% over the same stretch.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, federal and state Medicaid expenditures reached approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, which accounted for around 18% of national health care spending. That total rose sharply from $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic’s onset.

This equates to roughly 40% growth in just a few years, largely driven by increased enrollment and utilization related to the pandemic and its aftermath.

Recent congressional budget packages under the Trump administration have included major proposals to cut back federal Medicaid contributions and overhaul the program. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed in 2025, is projected to reduce federal Medicaid funding by more than $1 trillion in the coming decade and would introduce work requirements along with higher cost-sharing, potentially reducing coverage and support for certain enrollees. Those changes are likely to move greater financial responsibility to states and constrain future federal spending, though Medicaid will continue to cover 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.