Counting The Number And Percentage Of Annual Births In The Medicaid Program At The National, State And Sub-State Levels

October 2, 2013
On October 2, 2013, the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) released a report on the number of live births in the Medicaid program. The report discusses the importance of this data, describing the major types of data that have been used to compute the number and percentage of Medicaid live births from many sources which differ in the type of information from the state to the national level. The data also compares counts and percentages using different datasets and methodologies. Differences among estimates reflect a variety of factors, including how Medicaid is identified and . . .