Culver City Medicaid providers report $240,579 in 2024 spending for durable medical equipment services

Culver City Medicaid providers submitted $240,579 in 2024 claims for services listed under the Durable Medical Equipment category, based on data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represents a 111.4% jump from 2023, when claims for the category totaled $113,785.

Medicaid, a state-run public health insurance program supported by both federal and state governments, provides coverage to low-income individuals and families, seniors, children, and people with disabilities. It remains one of the largest components of the U.S. health care system.

Because Medicaid is funded through taxpayer dollars, fluctuation in local billing levels reflects how public health care resources are distributed in a community.

The “Durable Medical Equipment” category includes Medicaid-billed services sorted by care type, using standardized HCPCS and CPT code sets. For this data review, each billing code was assigned to one category using defined numerical groupings, ensuring related services are analyzed together and double counting is avoided while ranking services consistently over time.

Although various Medicaid service categories saw spending rises, Durable Medical Equipment was 11th by total Medicaid payments in Culver City for 2024.

Statewide, in California, Durable Medical Equipment was ranked 15th for total Medicaid payments in 2024.

Looking over the five years leading to 2024, Medicaid payments for Durable Medical Equipment in Culver City grew by $177,705, or 282.6%. Increased spending was particularly notable during several intervals, especially in 2023 and 2020.

While payment for Durable Medical Equipment services was disbursed across Culver City, it was concentrated within particular ZIP codes. In 2024, the primary ZIP code was 90230, which alone accounted for $240,578. Altogether, the top ZIP code represented 100% of Medicaid payments for this category in Culver City during the year.

Within the Durable Medical Equipment category, a small subset of billing codes accounted for the majority of Medicaid payments.

Medicaid payments linked to Durable Medical Equipment in Culver City climbed by 111.4% from 2023 to 2024. Over the same period, the increase for all Medicaid claim categories in the city was 17.9%.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, total federal and state Medicaid spending stood at about $871.7 billion during fiscal year 2023, making up about 18% of overall national health expenses and showing a sharp rise from roughly $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This change marks nearly a 40% increase within several years, primarily fueled by expanded program enrollment and higher use during and following the pandemic.

Recent federal budget measures under the Trump administration have included large-scale proposals to scale back federal Medicaid funding and modify program design. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” passed in 2025, would cut more than $1 trillion in federal Medicaid funding over 10 years and introduce work requirements and higher cost-sharing. These policies could result in reduced coverage or funding for certain beneficiaries and are expected to shift greater cost responsibility to states as federal growth is limited—even as Medicaid continues to support tens of 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.