Medicaid & CHIP Participation Rates

The figure below shows estimated Medicaid/Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) participation rates for children ages 0 to 18. Participation rates are defined as the ratio of Medicaid/CHIP-eligible enrolled children to the sum of Medicaid/CHIP-eligible enrolled children plus Medicaid/CHIP-eligible uninsured children, excluding those with both Medicaid/CHIP and private coverage (including military coverage) and those with Medicaid/CHIP coverage who do not have a known eligibility pathway for Medicaid or CHIP coverage.

Data from 2014 indicate that an estimated 91.0 percent of the eligible children in the United States without other coverage are enrolled in Medicaid/CHIP programs.

Figure Notes:

See source for how eligibility, participation, and uninsurance are defined. Estimates reflect edits to address apparent misreporting of coverage on the ACS.
* indicates that estimate is significantly different from the national average at the .05 level.

Source:

Urban Institute tabulations of 2013/2014 American Community Survey (ACS) data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) from: Kenney, Genevieve, Jennifer Haley, Clare Pan, Victoria Lynch, and Matthew Buettgens. 2016. "Children's Coverage Climb Continues: Uninsurance and Medicaid/CHIP Eligibility and Participation Under the ACA." Princeton, NJ: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. http://www.rwjf.org/content/dam/farm/reports/issue_briefs/2016/rwjf429061