Chalmette Medicaid bills for Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) climb 9.5% in 2024

Chalmette Medicaid providers billed $1,936,754 for services under the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) classification in 2024, data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database show. This represents a 9.5% rise compared with 2023, when claims totaled $1,769,029 for the same service group.

Medicaid, a public health insurance program funded jointly by federal and state governments and run by the states, covers low-income individuals, families, seniors, children, and people with disabilities. It is one of the largest components of the U.S. health care system.

Because Medicaid payments rely on taxpayer funding, fluctuations in local billing demonstrate how communities allocate public health care resources.

The “Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare)” group includes Medicaid-billed services categorized by specific care types, using standardized HCPCS and CPT code groupings. Each billing code in this analysis was matched to a single service category by code prefix and range to examine related services together, avoid double counting and maintain accurate rankings across years.

Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) was the third-largest Medicaid payment category in Chalmette during 2024, following increased spending across several service areas.

At the state level, Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) placed first among Medicaid categories in Louisiana for total 2024 payments.

From five years prior to 2024, Chalmette Medicaid payments linked to Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) rose by $894,543, or 85.8%. Periods such as 2021 and 2023 saw particularly strong year-over-year growth.

Spending was distributed citywide but concentrated in a small number of ZIP codes. During 2024, ZIP code 70043 reported the highest Medicaid payments in this service category, totaling $1,936,754. The top ZIP code accounted for the entire amount of Chalmette Medicaid payments designated for Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) that year.

Within this category, Medicaid spending was focused on relatively few individual billing codes.

Comparatively, Medicaid payments for Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) services in Chalmette rose by 9.5% between 2024 and 2023, while all Medicaid claim categories in the city together saw a 15% change over the same span.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined federal and state Medicaid spending totaled approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, making up about 18% of national health expenditures—a notable increase from roughly $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This represents an increase of about 40% in just a few years, with much of the growth attributed to expanded enrollment and greater service use during and following the pandemic.

Recent federal budget measures enacted during the Trump administration have included major proposals to reduce federal Medicaid funding and change the program’s structure. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is projected to decrease federal Medicaid funding by more than $1 trillion over the next decade and introduces policies such as work requirements and higher cost-sharing, which could restrict coverage and resources for certain beneficiaries. These changes are expected to shift more financial responsibility to states and limit federal growth, even as Medicaid continues to cover tens of millions nationwide.

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.