Medicaid payments for Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) climb to $4.6M in Canton for 2024

In 2024, providers in Canton billed $4,614,991 to Medicaid for services under Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare), data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows. That amount represents a 9% increase from 2023, when claims for these services reached $4,232,157.

Medicaid is a public health insurance program run at the state level and is funded jointly by federal and state governments. Serving low-income individuals, families, seniors, children, and people with disabilities, the program remains one of the nation’s largest health care safety nets.

Because taxpayer dollars support Medicaid, local billing trends illustrate how public health funds are distributed within communities.

The “Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare)” classification includes a designated group of Medicaid-billed services sorted by the nature of care delivered, relying on standardized HCPCS and CPT coding. For this assessment, billing codes have been aligned within a single service group by using set code prefixes and numeric sequences, allowing similar services to be analyzed collectively while avoiding duplicate counts and guaranteeing consistent rankings across years.

While Medicaid expenditures rose among several care groups, Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) saw the largest share of Medicaid payments in Canton for 2024.

Statewide in Mississippi, Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) were the second-highest category by Medicaid payments in 2024.

From five years before 2024, Medicaid disbursements in Canton linked to Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) rose by $1,460,439, an increase of 46.3%. Some years—specifically 2021 and 2023—showed faster rates of growth.

Though services billed under Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) were provided throughout Canton, payments were concentrated in just a handful of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 39046 generated $4,614,991, and the top ZIP codes together made up 100% of such Medicaid payments in the city for the year.

Payments were also concentrated under certain individual billing codes inside the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) group.

Between 2024 and 2023, Medicaid spending on Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) climbed 9% in Canton, while payments rose 10.2% for all Medicaid claim types citywide during the same timeframe.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, total Medicaid spending from combined federal and state sources totaled about $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023. This represented roughly 18% of total national health expenditures and marked a steep increase from $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic began.

The jump amounts to a rise of roughly 40% in only a few years, primarily the result of rising enrollment and greater utilization during and after the pandemic.

Recent legislative changes at the federal level during the Trump administration outlined significant plans to reduce Medicaid funding and reorganize the program. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed in 2025, is set to eliminate more than $1 trillion in federal Medicaid spending over the next 10 years, adding work requirements and increased cost-sharing provisions. These changes may reduce coverage and funding for some groups, move additional costs to states, and limit growth of federal Medicaid outlays, while the program continues to cover 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.