Rahway Medicaid radiology spending rises 18.4% to $344,874 in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Rahway billed a total of $344,874 for services within the Radiology Procedures category, data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows. This was an 18.4% increase from 2023, when $291,207 in claims were filed for these services.

Medicaid, a public health insurance initiative managed by states and funded jointly by federal and state governments, provides coverage to low-income individuals and families, seniors, children, and people with disabilities. It remains a central component of the U.S. health care landscape.

Because taxpayer funding supports Medicaid, fluctuations in local billing help illustrate how public health care dollars are distributed throughout each community.

The “Radiology Procedures” category is defined by specific service groupings based on HCPCS and CPT codes. This analysis assigned each billing code to a single category using uniform code prefixes and numeric ranges to prevent double counting and maintain accurate rankings over time.

Radiology Procedures stood as the sixth largest Medicaid spending category in Rahway for 2024, though spending rose across several service categories.

Statewide in New Jersey, Radiology Procedures was ranked eighth by total Medicaid payment amount in 2024.

Over the five years leading up to 2024, Medicaid payments in Rahway’s Radiology Procedures category increased by $241,303, up 233%. There were notable spikes in annual spending in both 2023 and 2021.

Payments for radiology services were distributed across Rahway, but the majority were concentrated in a small number of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 07065 accounted for $344,873 in Medicaid spending for radiology, representing all payments in this category for the city.

Most Medicaid spending within Radiology Procedures was grouped among a small subset of billing codes.

Medicaid payments for Radiology Procedures in Rahway grew by 18.4% between 2024 and 2023, outpacing the city’s overall Medicaid claim category increase of 15.4% during the same timeframe.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, federal and state Medicaid expenditures totaled about $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, making up approximately 18% of all national health expenditures. This is a significant rise from about $613.5 billion in 2019, ahead of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This approximately 40% increase over several years has been fueled largely by expanded enrollment and higher utilization during and after the pandemic.

Federal budget measures enacted under the Trump administration have resulted in major proposals to decrease federal Medicaid funding and change its structure. For example, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed in 2025, is expected to reduce federal Medicaid support by more than $1 trillion over the next decade and introduces policies—such as work requirements and higher cost-sharing—that could influence coverage and funding for some recipients. These policy shifts are anticipated to move more costs to individual states and may limit growth in federal Medicaid assistance as the program continues to cover tens of millions of Americans.

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.