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MedicaidContinuous Eligibility And Coverage Policies Expanded Children’s Medicaid Enrollment
- Aditi Vasan ([email protected]), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Chén C. Kenyon, University of Pennsylvania.
- Alexander G. Fiks, University of Pennsylvania.
- Atheendar S. Venkataramani, University of Pennsylvania.
Abstract
We examined children’s Medicaid participation during 2019–21 and found that as of March 2021, states newly adopting continuous Medicaid coverage for children during the COVID-19 pandemic experienced a 4.62 percent relative increase in children’s Medicaid participation compared to states with previous continuous eligibility policies.