Utah Medicaid payments for Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) services rise to $15,684,308 in 2024

Utah Medicaid payments for services in the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) category reached $15,684,308 in 2024, data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows. That amount marked a 16% rise over 2023, when providers filed $13,526,282 in claims.

Comparisons throughout this article reference the most recent earlier year for which data is available.

Medicaid, administered by states and funded jointly by federal and state governments, provides health insurance for low-income individuals, families, children, seniors, and people with disabilities. It remains a key component of the U.S. health care landscape.

Because taxpayer funds support Medicaid, shifts in billing in any given area give insight into local spending of public health care resources.

The Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) category aggregates Medicaid-billed services by type using standardized HCPCS and CPT codes. For this report, each billing code was matched with a single service grouping according to code prefixes and ranges. This approach ensures similar services are tracked together, avoids duplicate counts, and maintains consistent rankings over time.

Within categories, multiple service types can be included. For example, a category may cover various care modalities frequently billed together within the Medicaid system, such as office visits, diagnostic exams, or therapies.

Between 2019 and 2024, Medicaid spending associated with the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) category in Utah grew by $3,772,763, an increase of 31.7%. Certain years, including 2020 and 2021, saw especially strong yearly increases.

Spending for Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) services occurred across Utah, though a number of ZIP codes received the largest shares. In 2024, ZIP Code 84121 led the state at $5,257,402 (33.5% of the total), followed by ZIP Code 84770 with $3,551,486 (22.6%), and ZIP Code 84115 with $1,392,163 (8.9%).

These top three ZIP codes made up 65% of all Medicaid payments for services under the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) category in Utah for the year.

For context, Medicaid payments throughout Utah for all claim categories rose by 1.4% from 2023 to 2024.

Despite increases in several service groupings, the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) category ranked among the seven largest statewide Medicaid service categories by total payments in 2024.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, collective federal and state Medicaid expenditures amounted to approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, representing about 18% of all national health spending. This is a substantial jump from roughly $613.5 billion in 2019, before the pandemic began.

This difference reflects an increase of about 40% over a few years, mainly attributed to expanded enrollment and higher service use during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Recent federal budgets introduced under the Trump administration have proposed major cuts and structural changes to Medicaid. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed into law in 2025, is expected to reduce federal Medicaid funding by more than $1 trillion over the coming decade and implements new policies such as work requirements and higher cost-sharing. These changes could lower coverage and funding for certain enrollees, transferring more costs to states and constraining future federal growth even as Medicaid continues to serve tens of millions nationwide.

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.