Findings from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Broaden Understanding of Coronavirus [Children’s Enrollment in Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Coverage During the Medicaid Unwinding]: RNA Viruses – Coronavirus

2025 DEC 29 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics, Law & Government Daily -- Data detailed on RNA Viruses - Coronavirus have been presented. According to news reporting originating from Portland, Oregon, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “To examine changes in children’s Medicaid and CHIP enrollment during the Families First Coronavirus Response Act unwinding and assess whether CHIP enrollment offsets Medicaid declines. We used linear probability models with monthly indicators to estimate changes in enrollment from April 2023 to September 2024 overall and by CHIP structure type.”

Financial support for this research came from Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), “We used monthly children’s enrollment data from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for 32 states and the District of Columbia. During the unwinding, Medicaid enrollment declined from 48.1% to 41.2% of children, while CHIP enrollment remained stable (8.7% to 8.6%). We found average declines of 62,032 (95% confidence interval [CI]: -108,018 to -16,045) Medicaid-enrolled children per state (6.5 percentage points [pp], 95% CI: -8.1 to -5.0). Medicaid declines were larger in states with combination CHIP (-8.7 pp, 95% CI: -10.3 to -7.2) than Medicaid expansion CHIP (-4.5 pp, 95% CI: -6.0 to -3.1). We found no evidence of significant changes in CHIP enrollment overall or by CHIP structure.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Children’s Medicaid enrollment fell sharply without offsetting CHIP gains during the unwinding, underscoring the need for policies that prevent administrative disenrollment and ensure seamless coverage transitions.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Children’s Enrollment in Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Coverage During the Medicaid Unwinding. Health Services Research, 2025. Health Services Research can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Health Services Research - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1475-6773)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Daniel B. Nelson, Division of General Internal Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), Portland, Oregon, United States. Additional authors for this research include Erica L. Eliason and Aditi Vasan.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.70078. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Publisher contact information for the journal Health Services Research is: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA.

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