Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) services led to $559,227 in Medicaid payments in Mansfield for 2024

Mansfield Medicaid providers billed $559,227 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 total reflects a 148.8% rise versus 2023, when claims reached $224,793 for the same category.

Medicaid, a public health insurance program managed by states and funded through both federal and state sources, provides coverage for low-income residents, seniors, children, and individuals with disabilities. This makes it a major component of the U.S. health care infrastructure.

Since taxpayer dollars fund Medicaid payments, changes in the city’s billing patterns indicate how public health spending is directed within the community.

The Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) category encompasses a range of Medicaid services defined by the service provided, using consistent HCPCS and CPT code prefixes and numerical groupings. In this analysis, each billing code was sorted into a single service group, thereby supporting accurate category analysis, preventing double counting, and ensuring consistent rankings over time.

Even as Medicaid expenditure increased in several categories, Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) constituted the third-largest total Medicaid payment in Mansfield for 2024.

Across Texas, Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) stood as the highest Medicaid payment category in 2024.

Between 2020 and 2024, Medicaid payments associated with Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) in Mansfield rose by $538,878, or 2648.2%. There were significant jumps at certain points, notably in 2021 and 2023, demonstrating a pace of growth that fluctuated over this span.

Although the services were provided throughout various neighborhoods, the city’s Medicaid payments for Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) focused on a small number of ZIP codes. During 2024, ZIP code 76063 made up $559,227 of all such Medicaid payments, meaning the leading ZIP code alone accounted for the entire sum within this service category in Mansfield that year.

Within this service group, Medicaid payments were highly concentrated among a select set of billing codes.

For perspective, Mansfield’s 148.8% year-to-year growth in payments for Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) compared with a 30.3% increase across all Medicaid benefit categories during that same period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, federal and state Medicaid outlays reached an estimated $871.7 billion for the 2023 fiscal year, which represented about 18% of total national health costs. Before the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2019, totals were at $613.5 billion, showing a substantial pandemic-period surge.

This reflects nearly 40% growth in just a few years, attributed mainly to higher enrollment and increased service utilization during and following the pandemic era.

Recent budget policies signed into law during the Trump administration feature major changes aiming to limit federal Medicaid funding. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” of 2025, for example, is set to slash over $1 trillion in Medicaid outlays the next 10 years while imposing work requirements and greater cost-sharing for some recipients. Such policy shifts may transfer more funding responsibility to states and constrain federal contributions, even as Medicaid stays vital to 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.