Medicaid payments for hearing services in Florida reached $1,003,421 in 2024

Florida’s Medicaid payments for services in the Hearing Services category totaled $1,003,421 in 2024, data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows. This figure represents a 12.8% rise from 2023, when providers filed $889,933 in claims.

Medicaid, which is run by the states with joint federal and state funding, covers low-income families and individuals, seniors, children, and those with disabilities. This program remains one of the largest components of the U.S. health care system. For more details, see here.

Since Medicaid funding comes from taxpayers, local shifts in providers’ billing shed light on how public health care spending is directed in specific communities.

The “Hearing Services” classification includes Medicaid-billed services grouped by the HCPCS and CPT code ranges used. In compiling this analysis, each code was placed in a single category based on shared prefixes and number ranges. This approach ensured related services were evaluated together without any overlap or double counting.

In some cases, these categories may comprise multiple service types. In such instances, the classification brings together different care types typically billed together—like office visits, diagnostic work, and therapeutic interventions—under Medicaid.

From five years prior to 2024, Medicaid payments connected with the Hearing Services group in Florida grew by $707,132, or 238.7%. Certain years saw sharper increases, including notable annual gains in 2020 and 2023.

While spending under the Hearing Services category occurred statewide, most of the payments were focused in a handful of ZIP codes. In 2024, the leading ZIP code was 33322, which received $994,913—99.2% of the Hearing Services total for the period.

This single ZIP code made up 99.2% of statewide Medicaid payments associated with the Hearing Services category that year.

For further context, Medicaid spending across all statewide claim categories went up 14.7% between 2023 and 2024.

Despite increases across several categories, Hearing Services ranked among the 22 highest service categories in 2024 by overall Medicaid payments in Florida.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, in fiscal year 2023, federal and state Medicaid spending was about $871.7 billion, representing roughly 18% of national health expenditures—up substantially from $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This reflects growth of around 40% over just a few years, largely driven by expanded enrollment and higher service use during and following the pandemic.

Recent federal budget laws enacted under the Trump administration included significant measures to scale back federal Medicaid contributions and alter how the program is structured. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is expected to reduce federal Medicaid outlays by over $1 trillion over the next decade. It also implements changes like work requirements and increased cost-sharing that could limit some beneficiaries’ coverage and funding. These adjustments are projected to shift more financial responsibility to the states and constrain federal Medicaid growth, even as the program remains vital to tens of millions of Americans.