Fort Morgan Medicaid providers charged a total of $197,297 for services within the Vision Services group in 2024, based on information from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represents a 5.8% rise over 2023, when $186,414 in claims were filed for similar services.
Medicaid acts as a public health insurance initiative, operated by state governments with joint funding from federal and state sources. It covers low-income adults and children, seniors, and people with disabilities, making it a major component of the nation’s health care network.
With Medicaid payments sourced from public funds, local shifts in billing amounts reflect how taxpayer dollars are distributed to health care within each community.
The Vision Services category groups together specific Medicaid-billed services according to standardized HCPCS and CPT code clusters. To facilitate analysis, each code was assigned a single service category using uniform code prefixes and ranges, which enables a comparative view of related services while avoiding overlap or duplication in totals and rankings over different years.
Medicaid expenditures increased in several service categories, but Vision Services ranked sixth by aggregate Medicaid payments in Fort Morgan for 2024.
Across Colorado, Vision Services placed ninth for all Medicaid payment categories that year.
From 2019 to 2024, Medicaid payments for Vision Services in Fort Morgan rose by $172,644, or 700.3%. Upticks were especially pronounced during certain years, including 2021 and 2023, when year-over-year growth was significant.
Though various locations throughout Fort Morgan received Medicaid payments for vision care in 2024, most spending was concentrated within a small set of ZIP codes. ZIP code 80701, for example, saw a total of $197,297 in Medicaid payments, representing 100% of vision service payments for the city that year.
Within Vision Services, only a handful of individual codes accounted for the bulk of claims.
For context, the 5.8% increase in local Medicaid payments tied to vision services from 2023 to 2024 compares with a larger 58.9% shift across all Medicaid claim types in Fort Morgan for the same period.
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined state and federal Medicaid outlays approached $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023—about 18% of national health spending and up sharply from $613.5 billion in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic.
This increase is roughly 40% in just a few years, due in large part to increased enrollment and higher usage rates during and after the pandemic.
Recent budget legislation during the Trump presidency included significant measures to reduce federal Medicaid funding and alter the structure of the program. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” passed in 2025, is anticipated to trim more than $1 trillion in Medicaid federal spending over ten years, introducing policies like work requirements and higher cost-sharing. These moves are expected to result in less coverage and reduced funding for some enrollees, shifting an increased burden of costs onto state budgets even as tens of millions of people continue to rely on Medicaid.
| Year | Total Medicaid Payments | % Change From Previous Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $24,653 | -22.7% |
| 2021 | $59,568 | 141.6% |
| 2022 | $86,612 | 45.4% |
| 2023 | $186,414 | 115.2% |
| 2024 | $197,297 | 5.8% |
| Rank | Category | Medicaid Payments | Share of City Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies | $4,866,216 | 52.9% |
| 2 | Medicine Services and Procedures | $1,212,011 | 13.2% |
| 3 | Evaluation and Management | $1,104,622 | 12% |
| 4 | Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment | $694,174 | 7.5% |
| 5 | Dental Services | $508,275 | 5.5% |
| 6 | Vision Services | $197,297 | 2.1% |
| 7 | Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies | $193,055 | 2.1% |
| 8 | Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) | $185,767 | 2% |
| 9 | Durable Medical Equipment | $181,972 | 2% |
| 10 | Pathology and Laboratory Procedures | $43,971 | 0.5% |
| 11 | Medical And Surgical Supplies | $10,193 | 0.1% |
| 12 | Radiology Procedures | $3,242 | <0.1% |
| 13 | Procedures / Professional Services | $164 | <0.1% |
| 14 | Drugs Administered Other than Oral Method | $54 | <0.1% |
| 15 | Surgery | $0 | <0.1% |
| 15 | Temporary Codes | $0 | <0.1% |
| HCPCS Code | Description | Medicaid Payments | Claims |
|---|---|---|---|
| V2020 | Vision svcs frames purchases | $64,711 | 29 |
| V2784 | Lens polycarb or equal | $56,626 | 29 |
| V2102 | Singl visn sphere 7.12-20.00 | $19,283 | 5 |
| V2105 | Spherocylinder 4.00d/4.25-6d | $19,231 | 8 |
| V2410 | Lens variab asphericity sing | $15,735 | 10 |
| V2103 | Spherocylindr 4.00d/12-2.00d | $13,262 | 9 |
| V2750 | Anti-reflective coating | $4,120 | 8 |
| V2100 | Lens spher single plano 4.00 | $1,656 | 1 |
| V2755 | Uv lens/es | $1,566 | 5 |
| V2104 | Spherocylindr 4.00d/2.12-4d | $1,102 | 1 |
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.
