Haledon Medicaid spending on Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) rises to $5,895,538 in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Haledon billed a total of $5,895,538 for services under the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) category, as reported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This amount reflects a 13.7% rise over 2023, when claims reached $5,183,925 for the same category.

Medicaid, administered by states and jointly financed by federal and state governments, offers coverage for low-income individuals and families, seniors, children, and those with disabilities, making it one of the largest components of the U.S. health care system.

Because Medicaid is funded by taxpayers, changes in how much is billed at the local level can indicate how a community allocates public health care resources.

The “Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare)” category groups Medicaid-billed services based on the care provided, using standardized HCPCS and CPT code collections. For this review, each billing code was sorted into a single service category through uniform code prefixes and numeric boundaries, allowing related services to be grouped while maintaining accurate rankings and avoiding duplication.

Spending on Medicaid increased in several categories, but Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) led all others in Haledon for total Medicaid payments in 2024.

Statewide in New Jersey, Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) was ranked fifth among categories with the highest Medicaid payments in 2024.

From 2019 to 2024, Haledon’s Medicaid payments for Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) grew by $2,022,561, or 52.2%. The most significant year-over-year growth occurred in 2021 and 2020.

While these Medicaid payments were distributed throughout Haledon, most payments were concentrated in a small number of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 07508 accounted for $5,895,538 in Medicaid payments within this category. The top ZIP code represented 100% of the category’s payments in Haledon for the year.

Payments within the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) grouping were also focused on a subset of specific billing codes.

Between 2024 and 2023, Haledon saw a 13.7% increase in Medicaid payments within the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) category, whereas payments across all Medicaid categories in the city rose by 2.1% for the same period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, total Medicaid spending from federal and state sources reached about $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, accounting for roughly 18% of all national health expenditures. This figure increased sharply from about $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This rise marks a jump of about 40% over a few years, primarily due to broader enrollment and increased service use during and after the pandemic.

Recent federal budget legislation during the Trump administration brought major proposals to cut federal Medicaid funding and alter program structure. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” adopted in 2025, is expected to reduce federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion during the next decade, introducing work requirements and higher cost-sharing that may decrease support and coverage for certain recipients. The changes are likely to shift more costs to the states and restrict the federal share in Medicaid growth, although the program continues to provide for tens of millions of Americans.

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.