Medicaid enrollment swells under pandemic, hitting nearly 74M

Fierce Healthcare June 21, 2021
Paige Minemyer

Medicaid enrollment grew significantly under the pandemic, according to new data from the Biden administration.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said Monday that as of January 2021, 73.7 million people were enrolled in Medicaid, and nearly 6.8 million were enrolled in the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

Total enrollment across the two programs was 80.5 million in January, up from 70.7 million in February 2020. Nearly 9.9 million people enrolled in these programs over the last year, up 13.9%.

More than 38.3 million children were covered in both Medicaid and CHIP, accounting for nearly half of the total enrollment, CMS said.

Officials attribute the increased enrollment largely to changes under the COVID-19 national public health...

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