Medicaid policy data for evaluating eligibility and programmatic changes.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) provide health insurance coverage to more than 90 million Americans as of early 2023. There is substantial variation in eligibility criteria, application procedures, premiums, and other programmatic characteristics across states and over time. Analyzing changes in Medicaid policies is important for state and federal agencies and other stakeholders, but such analysis requires data on historical programmatic characteristics that are often not available in a form ready for quantitative analysis. Our objective is to fill this gap by synthesizing existing qualitative policy data to create a new data resource that facilitates Medicaid policy research.

Data description

Our source data were the 50-state surveys o

SUBMITTER: Shafer PR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10546693 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature