In 2024, Medicaid providers in Morganville billed $14,626,187 for services listed under the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment category, figures from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database show. This amount reflects a 3.9% rise over 2023, when claims for the same category reached $14,075,587.
Administered by the states with a mix of federal and state funding, Medicaid offers public health insurance to low-income individuals and families, seniors, children, and those with disabilities, making it a central component of the U.S. health care system.
Because Medicaid is funded through taxpayer dollars, shifts in local billing patterns provide insight into how public health care resources are distributed throughout a community.
The “Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment” category includes Medicaid services grouped by care type, defined using standardized HCPCS and CPT code groupings. This analysis assigned each billing code to a single service group using uniform code prefixes and numeric ranges, which enabled evaluation of related services together, avoided double counting, and preserved consistent category rankings over time.
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment accounted for the highest total Medicaid payments among all service categories in Morganville in 2024, outpacing other types of care that year.
Statewide, New Jersey also saw Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment rank first by total Medicaid payments in 2024.
Over the five-year period ending in 2024, Medicaid payments for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment in Morganville increased by $5,352,778, or 57.7%. Growth accelerated in select years, particularly in 2023 and 2022, with significant annual increases during those periods.
Medicaid payments for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment were made citywide, but most funds were concentrated in a few ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 07751 alone accounted for $14,626,187 in payments, with the top ZIP code making up 100% of all Medicaid funds tied to this category in Morganville.
Within this service area, a small number of specific billing codes captured the majority of Medicaid payments made for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment in Morganville.
Between 2023 and 2024, Medicaid payments for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment in Morganville increased by 3.9%. In comparison, all Medicaid claim categories in the city saw a combined rise of 2.1% in the same time frame.
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined federal and state Medicaid expenditures totaled about $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, representing roughly 18% of all national health spending. This figure is up sharply from $613.5 billion in 2019, before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
That jump marks approximately 40% growth in only a few years, largely because of expanded enrollment and higher levels of utilization during and following the pandemic.
Recent federal budget measures enacted under the Trump administration have proposed substantial cuts to federal Medicaid funding and structural reforms. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed in 2025, is forecast to reduce federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years. New policies, such as work requirements and increased cost-sharing, are expected to decrease coverage and funding for some enrollees and shift more cost to states, potentially slowing the future growth of the federal share of Medicaid even as millions of Americans continue relying on the program.
| Year | Total Medicaid Payments | % Change From Previous Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $9,273,408 | 5.3% |
| 2021 | $10,454,044 | 12.7% |
| 2022 | $11,842,845 | 13.3% |
| 2023 | $14,075,586 | 18.9% |
| 2024 | $14,626,187 | 3.9% |
| Rank | Category | Medicaid Payments | Share of City Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment | $14,626,187 | 63.7% |
| 2 | National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies | $6,672,944 | 29.1% |
| 3 | Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) | $1,635,232 | 7.1% |
| 4 | Evaluation and Management | $11,924 | 0.1% |
| 5 | Medicine Services and Procedures | $5,847 | <0.1% |
| 6 | Medical And Surgical Supplies | $228 | <0.1% |
| 7 | Drugs Administered Other than Oral Method | $0 | <0.1% |
| 7 | Procedures / Professional Services | $0 | <0.1% |
| 7 | Temporary Codes | $0 | <0.1% |
| HCPCS Code | Description | Medicaid Payments | Claims |
|---|---|---|---|
| H2016 | Comp comm supp svc, per diem | $14,563,284 | 12 |
| H0036 | Comm psy face-face per 15min | $44,492 | 6 |
| H0004 | Alcohol and/or drug services | $18,410 | 12 |
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.
