The Medicaid continuous enrollment provision, which halted Medicaid enrollment through March 2020, expires on March 31, 2023. Mainly due to continuous enrollment provision, KFF Estimate Enrollment in Medicaid/CHIP increased by 23.3 million to nearly 95 million from February 2020 to the end of March 2023. as states Opening of Continuous Enrollment Provision Over the next 12 months, they will re-determine eligibility for all Medicaid enrollees and cancel enrollment of those who are no longer eligible or who may remain eligible but are unable to complete the renewal process. millions People are expected to lose Medicaid coverage during this unwinding period.
To monitor changes in Medicaid enrollment during the unwinding period, this tracker presents the latest Medicaid enrollment data available for each state as well as any unwinding data on monthly renewals, cancellations, and other measures available to the state. If a state does not post enrollment on its website and is updated monthly, enrollment data is pulled from state websites or the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website. For links to state websites, please click Here.
Click on the State Enrollment & Unwinding Data tab for available state data.
States will begin disenrolling people from Medicaid in different months, with some states beginning to enroll in April, others in May or June, and even July or later in some states. The figure below shows the month in which enrollment cancellations are expected in each state.
