Medicaid payments for Anesthesia services in Hollister surge to $6,157,735 in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Hollister submitted $6,157,735 in claims for services categorized under Anesthesia, based on records from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represents a 7819.7% increase from the prior year, when $77,752 was billed for the same category.

Medicaid, overseen by individual states and funded through federal and state contributions, serves low-income people, families, seniors, children and those with disabilities, making it a key part of the national health care landscape.

Since Medicaid resources are taxpayer-funded, shifts in local billing patterns illustrate how a community’s public health care funds are distributed.

The Anesthesia category encompasses a set of services billed to Medicaid based on the nature of care delivered, organized through standardized HCPCS and CPT code groupings. For this report, each code was assigned to one service category by using specific code prefixes and number ranges to allow focused analysis while preventing overlaps and ensuring accurate rankings through time.

Although several service categories experienced higher Medicaid spending, Anesthesia finished as the second-largest by payments in Hollister during 2024.

On a broader scale, Anesthesia placed eighth for total Medicaid payments across California in 2024.

From five years earlier through 2024, Hollister’s Medicaid payments for Anesthesia rose by $6,016,040, an increase of 4245.8%. The fastest growth periods occurred in 2022 and 2023, based on available data.

Most Medicaid spending for Anesthesia services was localized to a few ZIP codes. For 2024, ZIP code 95023 accounted for all $6,157,735 in Medicaid Anesthesia payments within Hollister, making up 100% of the category’s spending citywide for the year.

Payments within the Anesthesia group focused mainly on a select group of billing codes.

To compare, while Anesthesia-related Medicaid payments in Hollister jumped 7819.7% from 2023 to 2024, total payments for all service categories citywide increased by 44.3% during the same period.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data show that combined federal and state Medicaid costs reached roughly $871.7 billion for fiscal year 2023, which was close to 18% of the nation’s total health expenditures. This was a steep rise from about $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This jump reflects about 40% growth in only a few years, largely due to increased enrollment and higher service utilization during and after the pandemic.

Recent federal budget actions from the Trump administration included notable efforts to decrease federal Medicaid spending as well as major program changes. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is forecast to reduce federal Medicaid expenditures by more than $1 trillion over 10 years and introduces work requirements and greater cost-sharing, which could lower coverage and funding for certain eligible groups. This legislation is expected to increase state funding responsibility and restrict the growth rate of federal support for Medicaid, despite the program’s continued broad reach.

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.