Dunlap Medicaid spending on Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) hits $731,493 in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Dunlap submitted $731,493 in claims for services grouped under the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) category, as reported in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This amount represented a 6.5% rise from 2023, when claims for these services totaled $686,913.

Medicaid is a public health plan managed by the states and financed together by federal and state governments. It provides coverage for low-income people and families, older adults, children, and individuals with disabilities, making it a foundational component of America’s health care landscape.

Given that Medicaid funds come from taxpayers, shifts in local billing activity reflect how publicly funded health dollars are distributed within a community.

The “Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare)” segment represents a mix of Medicaid-billed services categorized by type of care, structured by standardized HCPCS and CPT code groups. In this review, each code was classified into a single service grouping using consistent prefixes and numerical ranges. This lets similar services be analyzed together, prevents double counting, and preserves the accuracy of rankings over time.

Although more than one service category saw increased Medicaid spending, Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) led all categories in Dunlap by overall Medicaid payments in 2024.

For Tennessee as a whole, the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) category stood fourth in total payments from Medicaid in 2024.

Comparing trends over the five years through 2024, Dunlap’s Medicaid payments in this category climbed by $130,683, or 21.8%. Periods of faster spending growth occurred, with marked increases in 2022 and 2023.

Spending on care assigned to the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) group was distributed throughout Dunlap, but payments were heavily concentrated in select ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 37327 brought in $731,492 in Medicaid payments under this category. Overall, the top ZIP code represented all Medicaid spending for this service category in Dunlap during the year.

Within Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare), Medicaid expenditures centered on a small subset of specific billing codes.

To compare, payments for this category in Dunlap grew 6.5% from 2023 to 2024, exceeding the overall citywide change of 4.2% across all Medicaid claims in the same period.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports that combined federal and state Medicaid expenses reached approximately $871.7 billion for fiscal 2023, about 18% of all U.S. health outlays, sharply up from $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This change means there has been roughly a 40% surge in just a few years, mainly due to increased enrollment and more frequent usage during and after the pandemic period.

Recent national budget measures during the Trump administration have put forward significant plans to reduce federal Medicaid dollars and overhaul how the program works. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which became law in 2025, is set to cut more than $1 trillion from federal Medicaid spending over the coming decade and adds rules like work requirements and higher cost-sharing, which might decrease both access and funding for some recipients. As a result, larger fiscal responsibility is anticipated to fall on states, with reduced federal support forecast, despite the program’s reach across 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.