Medicaid paid over $125,000 for COVID-19 services in Port Angeles in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid payments for services connected to COVID-19 in Port Angeles reached a minimum of $125,953, based on data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database.

Medicaid is a state-run and federally supported public health insurance program. It provides coverage for low-income individuals and families, seniors, children, and people with disabilities, making it a significant component of the U.S. health care system. For more information about funding, see the joint funding explanation here.

Since Medicaid is funded through taxes, shifts in local billing reflect how public health care spending is allocated within a community.

This analysis defines COVID-19–related services as those billed under HCPCS codes identified as “COVID-19” or “coronavirus” in their billing descriptions or reference data. Therefore, only services officially labeled in billing as COVID-specific are included, and broader medical services possibly connected to the pandemic may not be counted in these figures.

By comparison, Seattle saw the largest total for Medicaid payments tied to COVID-19 services in Washington for 2024, at $461,706 for related claims.

In Port Angeles, two providers filed Medicaid claims for COVID-19–related services during 2024. The top billed code was COVID Specific, amounting to $124,264.

The average Medicaid payment per provider for COVID-19–related services in Port Angeles was $62,976, which exceeds the state average of $18,594.

COVID-19–specific services made up a notable segment of the rise in Medicaid spending in Port Angeles during the pandemic years.

Total Medicaid payments for all other claim categories in Port Angeles climbed by $2,473,015 between 2020 and 2024, up 12.9% over that span.

For the two years directly before the pandemic, average annual Medicaid payments in Port Angeles were $20,425,125.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined federal and state Medicaid expenses grew to approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, making up about 18% of total national health expenditures. This marked a sharp increase from roughly $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This jump equals about 40% growth in just a few years, mainly due to expanded enrollment and increased use of Medicaid during and following the pandemic period.

Recent federal budget actions under the Trump administration have proposed major reductions in federal Medicaid support and changes to its structure. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is expected to cut more than $1 trillion from federal Medicaid funding over 10 years. It introduces changes such as work requirements and higher cost-sharing for some participants, likely reducing coverage and increasing the financial burden on states, while continuing to serve tens of millions of Americans.

Note: Totals include only HCPCS codes clearly marked for COVID-19 services and do not reflect all health care spending tied to the pandemic.

All information used in this article was sourced from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. You can access the source database here.