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Medicaid

Continuous Eligibility And Coverage Policies Expanded Children’s Medicaid Enrollment

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  1. Aditi Vasan ([email protected]), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  2. Chén C. Kenyon, University of Pennsylvania.
  3. Alexander G. Fiks, University of Pennsylvania.
  4. Atheendar S. Venkataramani, University of Pennsylvania.
PUBLISHED:No Accesshttps://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2022.01465

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.

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