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! Every child currently covered by Medicaid or CHIP will need to go through a renewal process within the next several months. Keep your child covered and healthy. Complete the renewal as soon as you get it in the mail! 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.