Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility, Enrollment, and Cost Sharing Policies as of January 2019: Findings from a 50-State Survey

KFF Health News March 27, 2019
Tricia Brooks, Lauren Roygardner, and Samantha Artiga

Key Takeaways

This 17th annual survey of the 50 states and the District of Columbia (DC) provides data on Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) eligibility, enrollment, renewal, and cost sharing policies as of January 2019. See Appendix Tables 1-20 for state data. Over time, Medicaid has evolved from a program with limited eligibility and burdensome enrollment rules that excluded many low-income adults and created barriers to enrollment for eligible individuals to a modernized program that, along with CHIP, provides a broad base of health coverage for the low-income population and more effectively and efficiently connects eligible individuals to coverage. The survey data show: Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), most states...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), CMS, Govt Agencies, Insurance, Market Research, Medicaid, States, Trends

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