Lasalle Medicaid providers billed $36,992 in 2024 for services included under the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) category, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This figure represented a 65.3% rise from 2023, when claims in this category totaled $22,376.
Medicaid functions as a government insurance program operated by states with joint federal and state funding. It offers coverage for low-income families and individuals, seniors, children, and people with disabilities and stands as a major part of the nation’s health system.
Since Medicaid payments are funded through taxpayer dollars, changes in billing patterns locally indicate how public health care resources are distributed.
The “Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare)” category encompasses groups of services billed to Medicaid, identified by specific care types and based on standard HCPCS and CPT coding frameworks. In this review, service categories were assigned through consistent code prefixes and numeric ranges to group related services for comparison and maintain reliable rankings while avoiding double counting.
Though expenditures climbed across several service groups, Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) finished 2024 as the second-highest Medicaid payment category by total value in Lasalle.
Statewide in Illinois, Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) placed eighth among service categories in Medicaid payment totals for 2024.
During the five-year period before 2024, Medicaid payments for Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) in Lasalle grew by $36,992, with certain years, including 2023 and 2022, seeing significant year-over-year increases that signaled faster spending growth during those times.
While these Medicaid payments were spread throughout Lasalle, most funds were linked to a small set of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 61301 saw the entire $36,992 in Medicaid payments for this category, accounting for 100% of the city’s billings related to Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare).
Payments within this Medicaid category were similarly focused among just a few billing codes.
To put this rise in context, Lasalle’s 65.3% increase in payments for Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) from 2023 to 2024 outpaced the 33.4% growth observed across all Medicaid claim categories for the city in that time frame.
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, total Medicaid spending by federal and state governments reached approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, accounting for about 18% of all national health costs. This is a significant increase from roughly $613.5 billion recorded in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic.
This growth amounts to about 40% over just a few years, largely fueled by increased enrollments and higher medical usage during the pandemic and afterward.
Recent U.S. budget laws under the Trump administration proposed major cuts and changes in federal Medicaid financing. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” passed in 2025, is expected to cut over $1 trillion in federal Medicaid support during the coming decade. The law’s policies, including new work requirements and greater cost sharing, could limit eligibility and funding for some Medicaid participants, shifting more expenses onto states and slowing the rate of federal spending growth—even as the program remains a safety net for millions of Americans.
| Year | Total Medicaid Payments | % Change From Previous Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | $25,728 | – |
| 2023 | $22,376 | -13% |
| 2024 | $36,992 | 65.3% |
| Rank | Category | Medicaid Payments | Share of City Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment | $830,928 | 92.9% |
| 2 | Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) | $36,992 | 4.1% |
| 3 | National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies | $23,531 | 2.6% |
| 4 | Temporary Codes | $2,547 | 0.3% |
| HCPCS Code | Description | Medicaid Payments | Claims |
|---|---|---|---|
| S9484 | Crisis intervention per hour | $36,992 | 5 |
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.
