Humboldt Medicaid spending on Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) rises to $1,104,094 in 2024

In 2024, Humboldt Medicaid providers reported $1,104,094 in billings for services under the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) category, data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database show. This was a jump of 188.3% compared with 2023, when $383,030 was billed for the same services.

Medicaid functions as a public insurance initiative operated by states and jointly funded by both federal and state governments. Serving low-income individuals, seniors, children and those with disabilities, it comprises a major component of the U.S. healthcare system.

As Medicaid relies on taxpayer funding, fluctuations in local billing levels reflect community allocation of public health care resources.

The Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) group covers specific Medicaid-billed services, categorized by care type as determined by standardized HCPCS and CPT code sets. For the purposes of this analysis, each billing code was placed in just one category using consistent code prefixes and numbers, enabling related services to be tracked together without duplication or misrepresenting their rank over time.

Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) was the leading Medicaid spending category in Humboldt in 2024, outpacing all others by total payment amount.

Statewide in Tennessee, Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) ranked fourth in total Medicaid payments for 2024.

From five years prior to 2024, Medicaid payments for the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) group in Humboldt rose $1,103,992, a 1078116.8% increase. Certain years saw sharper growth, with particularly high annual increases in both 2023 and 2022.

Although payments for Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) services were distributed broadly in the city, they were largely grouped in a small number of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 38343 reported the full $1,104,094 in Medicaid payments categorized under Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare), representing 100% of such spending in Humboldt that year.

A small subset of billing codes within the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) group accounted for the majority of Medicaid payments.

For further context, Medicaid claims for the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) category in Humboldt rose 188.3% from 2023 to 2024, while the increase across all categories in the city was 35.4% in the same timeframe.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined state and federal Medicaid outlays grew to about $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023—around 18% of total U.S. health spending—up from approximately $613.5 billion in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This marked roughly 40% growth over several years, mainly as a result of increasing enrollment and service usage during and following the pandemic.

Recent federal budget actions during the Trump administration featured major proposals to decrease federal Medicaid spending and change the structure of the program. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is expected to reduce federal Medicaid funding by more than $1 trillion over ten years and implement policies such as work mandates and higher cost sharing, changes that may shrink coverage and federal support for some beneficiaries. States are projected to assume more cost responsibility and may face slower growth in federal contributions, even as Medicaid continues to provide coverage for tens of millions of citizens.

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.