Continuous Eligibility And Coverage Policies Expanded Children’s Medicaid Enrollment

This is the authors' abstract. We don't add key points for this paper.

We examined children's Medicaid participation during 2019-21 and found that as of March 2021, states newly adopting continuous Medicaid coverage for children during the COVID-19 pandemic experienced a 4.62 percent relative increase in children's Medicaid participation compared to states with previous continuous eligibility policies.