IMPORTANT: Look for your child’s Medicaid or CHIP renewal in the mail, complete it and mail it back immediately. They may be covered even if you’re not! Go to Medicaid.gov/renewals to find contact information for your state Medicaid office.

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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% 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 analysis of 2013-2019 American Community Survey (ACS) data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) from: Haley, Jennifer M., Genevieve M. Kenney, Clare Wang Pan, Robin Wang, Victoria Lynch, and Matthew Buettgens. 2021. “Uninsurance Rose among Children and Parents in 2019.” Washington, DC: Urban Institute.