Mathematica’s Expertise in Advanced Analytics and Medicaid/CHIP Data Enhances Race/Ethnicity Data

For the first time in agency history, the Center for Medicaid & CHIP Services (CMCS) can produce estimates of the racial/ethnic distribution of enrollees in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that include all enrollees. This capability provides insights that previously had not been possible due to missing or unusable self-reported data on race/ethnicity.

CMCS can now report that of the 96 million enrollees in 2020, there were an estimated 41 million non-Hispanic White Medicaid and CHIP enrollees, 27 million Hispanic enrollees, 20 million non-Hispanic Black enrollees, 5 million non-Hispanic Asian/Pacific Islander enrollees, and 1 million non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native enrollees, with the remaining enrollees being multiracial. Mathematica worked with CMCS to make this analysis possible by developing indirect estimates of enrollees’ race/ethnicity when those data are unavailable or unusable, an effort that CMS recently highlighted in a blog post.

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