Lawrenceville Medicaid payments linked to Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) climb 0.3% in 2024

Lawrenceville Medicaid providers reported billing $4,653,408 for Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) services in 2024, according to information from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This amount reflects a 0.3% rise compared with 2023, when billings for these services totaled $4,637,458.

Medicaid is a public health insurance initiative administered by states and jointly funded through federal and state contributions, as described by the Commonwealth Fund. It covers populations such as low-income families, the elderly, children, and individuals with disabilities and remains a major component of the United States health system.

As Medicaid funding stems from taxpayer sources, fluctuations in local payment figures provide insight into how public health resources are distributed at the community level.

The “Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare)” group represents a set of Medicaid-billed services defined by assigned types of care through structured HCPCS and CPT code ranges. For this report, codes were categorized into distinct service groupings using uniform numerical and prefix standards to group similar services and avoid overlapping tallies while tracking category trends over time.

Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) accounted for the highest total Medicaid payments by service category in Lawrenceville in 2024, while other areas also experienced growth in Medicaid funding across other categories.

Statewide, the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) group ranked fifth in total Medicaid disbursement for 2024.

Between 2019 and 2024, Lawrenceville’s Medicaid payments associated with Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) increased by $898,546, or 23.9%. Growth accelerated notably in certain years within this period, especially in 2021 and 2023.

Medicaid spending for Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) was present throughout Lawrenceville but mainly concentrated within specific ZIP codes. In 2024, Medicaid payments tied to this category in ZIP code 08648 totaled $4,653,407, making up 100% of related payments citywide for the year.

For this service category, Medicaid payments focused on a relatively small set of individual billing codes in Lawrenceville.

From 2023 to 2024, Medicaid payments tied to Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) in Lawrenceville grew 0.3%, while the overall Medicaid claims spending in the city increased by 0.6% in the same period.

Data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shows that federal and state Medicaid spending reached approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023. This amount represented around 18% of national health expenditures and was up significantly from about $613.5 billion in 2019, before the impact of COVID-19.

The difference marks a roughly 40% expansion over a few years, influenced mainly by a rise in enrollment as well as greater use of health care both during and after the COVID-19 emergency.

Recent federal budget actions during the Trump administration included major proposals to withhold federal Medicaid support and change how the program is structured. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” made law in 2025, is estimated to cut over $1 trillion in federal Medicaid funds over the next decade. It introduces new requirements such as mandated work and higher out-of-pocket costs, steps that could restrict benefits and overall funding for certain groups, potentially increasing the fiscal responsibility for states and slowing the expansion of federal Medicaid assistance even as the program remains essential for tens of millions.

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.