Sauk Rapids Medicaid payments for Enteral and Parenteral Therapy reach $143,718 in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Sauk Rapids billed a total of $143,718 for services listed under the Enteral and Parenteral Therapy category, as reported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This amount reflects an 8.3% rise from 2023, when $132,644 in claims were submitted for the same services.

Medicaid is a government health insurance program administered by individual states and funded collectively by federal and state governments. The program offers coverage to low-income individuals, families, children, seniors, and people with disabilities, making it one of the nation’s largest health care programs.

Since Medicaid expenditures are sourced from public funds, fluctuations in local billing reflect how community health care resources are utilized.

The label “Enteral and Parenteral Therapy” encompasses a set of Medicaid services categorized by the specific care delivered, according to standard HCPCS and CPT coding. For this article, each code was linked to a unique service category through consistent code prefixes and numbers, enabling aggregated analysis without double counting or skewing service rankings over time.

Medicaid spending increased in many categories, with Enteral and Parenteral Therapy standing as the fifth highest by total Medicaid payment in Sauk Rapids in 2024.

Statewide, the Enteral and Parenteral Therapy category ranked 11th in Minnesota based on total Medicaid disbursements during 2024.

Over the stretch of five years leading up to 2024, Sauk Rapids’ Medicaid payments for Enteral and Parenteral Therapy grew by $143,718, registering a 0% overall change. Certain years—especially 2022 and 2023—saw more pronounced annual increases.

Although these therapy services were used across different areas of Sauk Rapids, Medicaid billing was primarily concentrated in just a few ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 56379 accounted for the total $143,718 in Medicaid payments for Enteral and Parenteral Therapy, representing 100% of city claims in this category.

Payments within this category were dominated by only a handful of specific billing codes.

Comparatively, the 8.3% increase for this therapy category between 2024 and 2023 fell below the overall 33.3% surge for all Medicaid claim categories in Sauk Rapids during this timeframe.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Medicaid’s joint federal and state expenditures totaled approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, which equates to about 18% of the U.S.’s total health spending, up from about $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 outbreak.

This rise is equivalent to approximately 40% over just a few years and is mainly attributed to higher enrollment and increased service use related to the pandemic.

Recent federal budget actions under the Trump administration have introduced sweeping proposals to cut federal Medicaid support and modify program structures. One example, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is projected to reduce federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion over 10 years, implementing measures such as work requirements and higher cost-sharing, which could limit both coverage and funding for some enrollees. Such changes are poised to increase state costs and slow federal Medicaid growth, even as the program continues to have broad national reach serving tens of millions of people.

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.