Data catalog

Medicaid & CHIP enrollment by state (monthly)

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Publisher site
health
timeseries

In a RepVector build, this dataset quantifies clinical need and utilisation across the population.

Sample of the actual data
36 rows captured for Boise, Ada County, Idaho on 2026-10-01. Showing the first 8.
StateReporting period (YYYYMM)Medicaid + CHIP enrollmentMedicaid enrollmentCHIP enrollmentChild enrollment
Idaho202606307,060287,98419,076148,513
Idaho202605312,622293,04319,579151,464
Idaho202605310,400290,94419,456150,385
Idaho202604316,882297,06419,818153,191
Idaho202604313,919294,32219,597151,728
Idaho202603315,085295,30019,785152,742
Idaho202603315,085295,30019,785152,742
Idaho202602314,249294,37019,879152,662

What this dataset is

Monthly state-reported Medicaid and CHIP enrollment — total, adult, child and CHIP — alongside new application volume and whether the state expanded Medicaid. A direct read on publicly insured population size and how fast it is moving. It is published by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and can be queried at state level, refreshed monthly. Each row is a period observation, so results show direction and rate of change rather than a single snapshot.

Why it is useful

  • Separates markets with real clinical demand from markets that only have supply.
  • Grounds a territory case in published prevalence and utilisation instead of assumption.
  • Highlights where need outruns available capacity — usually the fastest conversations.

Questions it helps answer

  • Where is the underlying clinical need highest relative to available capacity?
  • How does utilisation here compare with the state and national picture?
  • Which measures are suppressed or unreported for this geography?

How different verticals use it

RepVector is vertical-agnostic: this dataset is selected by what your question asks for, not by industry. These are common ways teams put it to work.

Healthcare & life sciences

Prioritises territories where clinical need outruns available capacity.

Behavioral health & social services

Quantifies prevalence and utilisation behind a programme or referral case.

Financial services

Informs risk and benefit design with published utilisation patterns.

Education & workforce

Shows community health pressures that shape support-service demand.

How RepVector uses it

  1. You describe a market in plain language. The geography resolver turns the place you named into the exact identifiers this dataset needs — city to county to state, plus DMA where relevant — so a query at state runs without you knowing any codes.
  2. The planner selects Medicaid & CHIP enrollment by state (monthly) only when your question matches what it actually reports. It is never included to pad a result.
  3. Returned rows are normalised into the shared metric layer, so figures from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services line up with every other source in the same dashboard instead of sitting in an isolated table.
  4. Quality checks score coverage and recency. If Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services suppresses or omits a value for your geography, the gap is reported as a gap — nothing is estimated or filled in.
  5. The result renders as charts, KPIs and, where the rows are entities, prioritised targets you can export to PDF, Excel, CSV or JSON.

What it does not tell you

  • Aggregated and often suppressed at small geographies to protect privacy; gaps are reported rather than filled in.
At a glance
How this dataset can be queried and how current it stays.
Publisher
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Geographic grain
state
Refresh cadence
Monthly
Row represents
timeseries
Topics
medicaid
chip
public insurance
enrollment
coverage
payer mix
eligibility
applications
expansion
safety net
state programme
Available fields
The columns this dataset returns in a RepVector build.
FieldKeyType
Statestategeo
Reporting period (YYYYMM)periodstring
Medicaid + CHIP enrollmenttotalEnrollmentnumber
Medicaid enrollmentmedicaidEnrollmentnumber
CHIP enrollmentchipEnrollmentnumber
Child enrollmentchildEnrollmentnumber
Adult Medicaid enrollmentadultEnrollmentnumber
New applicationsnewApplicationsnumber
Expansion stateexpandedMedicaidstring

How it fits with the rest of the catalog

Need data explains why a territory matters; provider and facility data explains who you visit once you get there. RepVector queries every selected dataset against the same resolved geography and time window, then normalises the results into one metric layer so they can be charted side by side. These datasets are the most common companions to Medicaid & CHIP enrollment by state (monthly):

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Common questions

What does Medicaid & CHIP enrollment by state (monthly) contain?

Monthly state-reported Medicaid and CHIP enrollment — total, adult, child and CHIP — alongside new application volume and whether the state expanded Medicaid. A direct read on publicly insured population size and how fast it is moving. It is published by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services at state grain.

How often is it refreshed?

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes on a monthly cycle. RepVector re-reads the source on that cadence and keeps every prior capture, so you can see what changed.

Do I need an account to use it?

No. Browsing the catalog and the free lookup tools needs no account. Running a full market build across every county in a territory is the paid product.

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