Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) recently released the 2023 edition of their “MACStats: Medicaid and CHIP Data Book,” which presents the most current data available on Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). These programs provide a safety net for low-income populations who otherwise would not have access to health care coverage and cover services other payers often do not. This data book compiles the broad range of Medicaid and CHIP statistics that MACPAC regularly updates on macpac.gov into a single, end-of-year publication. MACPAC’s purpose is to bring together in one place federal and state data on Medicaid and CHIP that come from multiple data sources...

MACPAC, the non-partisan legislative branch agency that provides policy and data analysis and makes recommendations to Congress, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the states on a wide array of issues affecting Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), released its June 2023 Report to Congress on Medicaid and CHIP. The report features the agency’s recommendations in four areas: payment policy for safety net hospitals, integrated care for people who are dually eligible for Medicaid and Medicare, coverage for adults leaving incarceration, and access to Medicaid home- and community-based services (HCBS)...