Survey-Reported Coverage in 2019-2022 and Implications for Unwinding Medicaid Continuous Eligibility.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Policy changes and the COVID-19 pandemic affected health coverage rates, and the "unwinding" of Medicaid's continuous coverage provision in 2023 and 2024 may cause widespread coverage loss. Recent coverage patterns in national survey and administrative data can inform these issues.

Objective

To assess national and state changes in survey-based Medicaid, private insurance, and uninsured rates between 2019 and 2022, as well as how these changes compare with administrative Medicaid enrollment totals.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study analyzes nationally representative survey data for all US residents in the American Community Survey (ACS) from 2019 to 2022 compared with administrative data on Medicaid and the Children's Health Insura

SUBMITTER: McIntyre A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10998158 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature