Medicaid Enrollment

Why Is This Important?

Medicaid provides health coverage for those New Mexicans living below a certain percentage of the federal poverty level, and provides coverage for almost half of New Mexico's children. People with health coverage are more likely to receive preventive medical care and are consequently less likely to suffer from preventable illnesses and complications of those illnesses.

Definition

The monthly percentage of the population enrolled in Medicaid, averaged over the months in the measurement period. Enrollment varies from one month to the next. The average monthly enrollment was used to compute these percentages.

Data Sources

• U.S. Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), as reported on the [https://www.kff.org/health-reform/state-indicator/total-monthly-medicaid-and-chip-enrollment Kaiser Family Foundation website].
  (https://www.kff.org/health-reform/state-indicator/total-monthly-medicaid-and-chip-enrollment)
• New Mexico Population Estimates: University of New Mexico, Geospatial and Population Studies (GPS) Program.
  (http://gps.unm.edu/)
• 
  (https://webapp.hsd.state.nm.us/MERReport/RunReport.aspx)

How the Measure is Calculated

Available Services

New Mexico Human Services Department, Income Support Division: [http://www.hsd.state.nm.us/isd.html]