Fontana Medicaid providers bill $510,144 for COVID-19 services in 2024

Fontana Medicaid providers billed at least $510,144 in 2024 for services classified under HCPCS codes specific to COVID-19, according to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This was a 715.8% jump compared with the prior year, when $62,536 in claims were submitted for those same codes.

Funded jointly by federal and state governments, Medicaid is a state-managed public health insurance program that covers low-income people, families, older adults, children, and individuals with disabilities, making it a core part of the U.S. health system.

Because taxpayer dollars support Medicaid, fluctuations in local billing levels provide insight into how public health care resources are deployed within the community.

For this report, COVID-19 care was identified through HCPCS codes with billing labels or descriptions marked as “COVID-19” or “coronavirus”-related. Therefore, the data reflects services specifically labeled as COVID-related and does not include pandemic care that may have been billed under other, less explicit codes.

By comparison, San Jose posted the highest Medicaid payment total in California for COVID-19 services in 2024, recording $5,601,479 in virus-related claims.

In Fontana, the average Medicaid payment per provider for COVID-19–related treatments reached $255,072, surpassing the state median of $52,976.

COVID-19–related billing accounted for a notable portion of Medicaid spending growth in Fontana during the pandemic years.

Across all other categories, overall Medicaid payments grew by $64,143,536 between 2020 and 2024—a 180.9% rise.

In the two years just before the pandemic, Fontana’s average annual Medicaid payments were $30,425,085.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports that combined federal and state spending on Medicaid was about $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, representing roughly 18% of national health expenditures and an increase from approximately $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the pandemic.

This change marks nearly a 40% increase in a few years, primarily because of expanded enrollment and bigger utilization rates during and after the pandemic period.

Recent federal legislation under the Trump administration introduced proposals to reduce federal Medicaid outlays and redesign the program. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which became law in 2025, is expected to cut over $1 trillion in federal Medicaid costs over the next decade and implements policy changes such as work requirements and more cost-sharing. These measures may shrink coverage and funding for some recipients. States are anticipated to take on a larger share of costs as federal support slows, though Medicaid remains a safety net for millions of Americans.

Note: Totals include only HCPCS codes clearly marked for COVID-19 services and do not capture all pandemic-related health expenditures.

The information in this report uses data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. You can find the source data here.