As Medicaid Unwinding Concludes in Most States, KFF Finds 25 Million Lost Medicaid Coverage but Enrollment is 10 Million Higher Than Pre-Pandemic Levels

KFF September 18, 2024

Despite increases in Medicaid/CHIP enrollment overall in most states, 12 states saw child enrollment fall

Over 25 million people were disenrolled from Medicaid and over 56 million had their coverage renewed, according to KFF’s analysis of the outcomes of the Medicaid unwinding, which nearly all states have now completed.

Despite these millions of disenrollments, 10 million more people are currently enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) nationally than at the start of the pandemic. Most states ended the unwinding with higher total Medicaid and CHIP enrollment than they began with in February 2020, including seven states where enrollment levels were at least 30% higher.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, states kept people continuously enrolled in Medicaid in...

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