Confusion about Medicaid skewing coverage estimates, study finds

Healthcare DIVE April 10, 2024
Rebecca Pifer

The number of people enrolled in Medicaid soared over the pandemic, but many enrollees may not have known their coverage had continued, a new study suggests.

Dive Brief:

• The number of people enrolled in Medicaid soared over the pandemic due to federal restrictions on states removing members from the safety-net insurance program. However, many of those people may not have known their coverage had continued, a new study suggests.
• Medicaid coverage as a share of the overall population jumped by 5.2 percentage points between 2019 and 2022, according to CMS statistics. However, the change in survey-reported Medicaid coverage was much smaller — an increase of 1.3 percentage points, according to the study published Friday in JAMA Health Forum.
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