CMS Unveils Number Of Adult Medicaid Enrollees Linked To Expansion

By Amy Lotven / January 26, 2015 at 9:26 PM
The Medicaid program had about 4.8 million beneficiaries enrolled in the new adult group created by the ACA's Medicaid expansion by the end of the first quarter of 2014, out of which 3.2 million (or two-thirds) were “newly eligible,” and another 1.5 million were not, according to numbers released by CMS on Friday (Jan. 23). This is the first time CMS has broken out that data since the Medicaid expansion went into effect; departing CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner told Congress...


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