March 10, 2015
March 10, 2015: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released year-end 2014 state-level enrollment figures for Medicaid and CHIP along with final figures for the month of December.
In all, 69.7 million people enrolled in Medicaid/CHIP nationwide in 2014, with greater post-ACA enrollment growth seen in states that chose to expand Medicaid under the ACA (27.01%) than in non-expansion states (7.34%).
Among individual states, California had the highest total enrollment in 2014, at 11.9 million, while Kentucky saw the highest percent increase in enrollment at 76.89 percent.
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