Medicaid/Chip enrollment increases to more than 83 million, says CMS

Healthcare Finance News December 21, 2021
Jeff Lagasse

The public health emergency needs to be extended past its current mid-January deadline for millions to keep their Medicaid coverage.

The latest enrollment figures released this week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services show that an estimated 83 million people are now enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), representing an increase of nearly half a million.

The enrollment snapshot is from June, a month that saw 433,963 more Americans enrolled in the programs than in the previous month.

Since February 2020, enrollment in Medicaid and CHIP has increased by 12,507,181 individuals, or 17.7%, according to CMS.

Overall, there are about 76.3 million people enrolled in Medicaid as of June, and nearly 6.9 million enrolled...

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