Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) drive $878,552 in Medicaid payments in Port Sulphur for 2024

Port Sulphur Medicaid providers billed $878,552 in 2024 for services categorized under Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows. This reflects an 18.9% rise from 2023, when providers submitted $738,779 in claims for this service type.

Medicaid is a state-administered public health insurance program funded jointly by federal and state governments. It supports people with low incomes, seniors, children, and those with disabilities, and is a central part of the U.S. health care landscape.

Since taxpayer funds provide Medicaid payments, shifts in local billing levels reveal how public health care funding is allocated in Port Sulphur.

The category, “Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare),” contains a specified group of Medicaid-billed services based on the type of care, structured by standardized HCPCS and CPT code groupings. For this review, each billing code was placed into a particular service category using unified code prefixes and numeric bands, grouping related services for analysis without overlap and maintaining accurate year-by-year comparisons.

While several Medicaid service categories saw higher spending, Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) stood as the top category by total Medicaid payments in Port Sulphur for 2024.

Statewide in Louisiana, Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) also led for total Medicaid payments during 2024.

Across the five-year period leading to 2024, Medicaid disbursements for the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) classification in Port Sulphur climbed by $878,552, a change of 0%. Some of the fastest increases occurred in certain years, notably in 2022 and 2023.

The distribution of Medicaid payments for Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) services was spread throughout Port Sulphur, but concentrated within a small set of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 70083 accounted for the full $878,552, making up 100% of payments for this category in Port Sulphur that year.

A limited number of specific billing codes accounted for most Medicaid payments within the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) grouping.

Comparatively, Medicaid payments related to the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) category in Port Sulphur went up by 18.9% from 2023 to 2024, while all Medicaid claim categories in the city collectively saw a 7.1% change during the same period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined state and federal spending on Medicaid was around $871.7 billion in 2023, making up roughly 18% of all U.S. health care costs. This was up significantly from about $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic began.

This increase represents roughly 40% growth over a few years, largely resulting from both rising enrollment and greater use of services during and following the pandemic period.

Recent federal budget measures under the Trump administration brought forward major proposals to cut federal Medicaid funding and make structural changes. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is expected to reduce federal Medicaid expenditure by more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years, with new requirements like work mandates and increased cost-sharing that may limit both coverage and funding for certain beneficiaries. These reforms are set to transfer a larger share of Medicaid costs to the states and control the expansion of federal support, even as the program continues providing health insurance for tens of millions across the U.S.

Note: HCPCS codes are displayed to provide context within the category. Totals and rankings for each category are determined based on standardized service groupings, not individual billing codes.

Information for this story came from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. The source data appears here.