Medicaid payments for Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) services in Tse Bonito reach $2.8 million in 2024

In Tse Bonito, Medicaid providers billed a total of $2,791,996 for services classified in the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) category in 2024, data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database show. This represents a 1.1% increase compared with the prior year, when $2,761,357 in claims were submitted for the same types of services.

Medicaid is a public health insurance program administered by the states and funded by both federal and state governments. It provides coverage for low-income individuals and families, children, seniors, and people with disabilities, and is one of the nation’s largest health care programs.

Since taxpayer funding supports Medicaid payments, changing local billing figures reflect how health care dollars are distributed within the community.

The “Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare)” category covers a set of Medicaid-billed services defined by the type of care provided, utilizing standardized HCPCS and CPT code groups. For this evaluation, each billing code was matched to a unique service category using specific code prefixes and number ranges, so related services could be grouped without double-counting, maintaining reliable rankings over time.

Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) led all Medicaid payment categories in Tse Bonito in 2024 by total payments as overall Medicaid spending grew across multiple categories.

Statewide, the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) category placed ninth in New Mexico by total Medicaid spending for 2024.

Over the five years prior to 2024, Medicaid payments for the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) category in Tse Bonito grew by $1,426,274, or 104.4%. Growth sped up during several years, especially in 2020 and 2023, which both saw significant year-over-year increases.

While Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) category health care services saw billing activity across Tse Bonito, a few ZIP codes received most of the Medicaid payments. In 2024, ZIP code 87305 accounted for $2,791,995 of these claims. This ZIP code alone represented 100% of Medicaid payments for this category in Tse Bonito for the year.

Most Medicaid payments within the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) category were associated with a narrow group of billing codes.

For context, while Tse Bonito’s Medicaid payments for this category rose 1.1% from 2023 to 2024, total Medicaid payments for all service categories in the city grew by 1% in the same period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, total federal and state Medicaid expenditures reached approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, which made up about 18% of national health outlays—up from about $613.5 billion in 2019, the year before the onset of COVID-19.

This rise reflects a roughly 40% increase, driven primarily by increased Medicaid enrollment and greater utilization during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Recent federal budget legislation approved during the Trump administration has included significant measures aimed at decreasing federal Medicaid funding and adjusting the program. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed into law in 2025, is expected to cut more than $1 trillion from federal Medicaid spending over the next decade and introduces new requirements such as work obligations and elevated cost-sharing that may reduce access for some enrollees. These adjustments could move more costs to states while capping the potential growth of federal support, even as the program remains a crucial resource for tens of millions of Americans.

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.