In 2024, Benavides Medicaid providers submitted $16,517,186 in claims for services grouped under the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) category, based on data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This total represents a 5.5% rise compared with 2023, when claims for these services reached $15,656,413.
Medicaid is a public health insurance program managed by individual states and funded in partnership with federal and state governments. It provides coverage for low-income families and individuals, older adults, children, and people with disabilities, making it a major part of the U.S. health care landscape.
Because Medicaid is taxpayer-funded, changes in local claim levels reflect how health care dollars are used within a community.
The “Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare)” category comprises a group of Medicaid services defined by care type through standardized HCPCS and CPT coding systems. For this analysis, each code was categorized into a unique service category by code prefixes and number ranges, which helps align related services, ensure consistency, and prevent double counting in rankings over time.
Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) constituted the top Medicaid payment category in Benavides in 2024, leading all categories by total dollars paid.
Statewide, Texas also reported Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) as its highest Medicaid payment category by value in 2024.
Between 2019 and 2024, Benavides saw Medicaid payments in the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) group rise by $8,152,483, an increase of 97.5%. Certain times, such as in 2021 and 2020, experienced pronounced year-over-year spending growth.
Payments for Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) services in Benavides were spread throughout the city but centralized in a few ZIP codes. For 2024, ZIP code 78341 made up the entire $16,517,186, meaning the top ZIP code represented 100% of Medicaid payments to this service category that year in Benavides.
Within the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) category, a small number of billing codes captured most Medicaid payments.
For added context, claims in the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) grouping increased 5.5% from 2023 to 2024 in Benavides, slightly below the 5.8% rise seen across all Medicaid claim categories in the city for the same period.
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Medicaid spending by state and federal governments combined totaled about $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, which was roughly 18% of national health expenditures. This figure rose sharply from $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This represents an increase of nearly 40% in just a few years, attributed mainly to expanded enrollment and greater service utilization during and following the pandemic.
Recent federal budget measures from the Trump administration have featured major proposals to reduce federal Medicaid outlays and change program structure. For example, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is forecast to cut over $1 trillion in Medicaid spending from the federal budget over the next decade and introduces measures such as work requirements and higher out-of-pocket costs that could affect who qualifies for coverage. These changes are projected to shift more of the program’s financial burden onto states and potentially constrain the expansion of federal Medicaid assistance even as the program continues to reach tens of millions of Americans.
| Year | Total Medicaid Payments | % Change From Previous Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $8,364,703 | 54.4% |
| 2021 | $14,889,482 | 78% |
| 2022 | $16,961,601 | 13.9% |
| 2023 | $15,656,412 | -7.7% |
| 2024 | $16,517,186 | 5.5% |
| Rank | Category | Medicaid Payments | Share of City Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) | $16,517,186 | 94.5% |
| 2 | National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies | $967,195 | 5.5% |
| 3 | Evaluation and Management | $368 | <0.1% |
| 4 | Procedures / Professional Services | $0 | <0.1% |
| 4 | Temporary Codes | $0 | <0.1% |
| HCPCS Code | Description | Medicaid Payments | Claims |
|---|---|---|---|
| S5125 | Attendant care service /15m | $16,517,186 | 36 |
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.
