Continuous Eligibility for Medicaid and CHIP Coverage
States have the option to provide children with 12 months of continuous coverage through Medicaid and CHIP, even if the family experiences a change in income during the year.
Freshness
- Last posted
- Period covered
- Update frequency
Dates as CMS lists them in its catalog.
Columns 4
| Column | What it means | Type |
|---|---|---|
Statestate | text | |
CHIPchip | text | |
Medicaidmedicaid | text | |
Exceptionsexceptions | text |
No column matches that filter.
At a glance
- Catalog
- data.medicaid.gov
- Publisher
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), data.medicaid.gov
- Rows
- 34
- Columns
- 4
- State column
state- Topics
- Medicaid and CHIP
API
Free, no key needed. This request returns the first 10 rows as JSON:
https://data.medicaid.gov/api/1/datastore/query/cdb769be-0d7b-524b-9d25-2062d36b60ab/0?limit=10
To keep only one state, filter on the state column.
CMS's description
States have the option to provide children with 12 months of continuous coverage through Medicaid and CHIP, even if the family experiences a change in income during the year. Continuous eligibility is a valuable tool that helps States ensure that children stay enrolled in the health coverage for which they are eligible and have consistent access to needed health care services.
The summary at the top is the first sentence of this description. Record id mcd:cdb769be-0d7b-524b-9d25-2062d36b60ab. This record as JSON.