New SCHIP Enrollment Figures

State Budget & Tax News

Volume 20, No. 3: February 1, 2001

Reprinted with permission from State Budget & Tax News

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently released State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) enrollment figures for Fiscal Year (FY) 2000. The new numbers show that more than 3.3 million children were enrolled in FY 2000, a 70 percent increase over the number of children enrolled in FY 1999.

SCHIP Enrollment Numbers
State	FY 1999	FY 2000	Number Change	Percent Change
Alabama	38,980	37,587	-1,393	-4%
Alaska	8,033	13,413	5,380	67%
Arizona	26,807	60,803	33,996	127%
Arkansas	913	1,892	979	107%
California	222,351	477,615	255,264	115%
Colorado	24,116	34,889	10,773	45%
Connecticut	9,912	18,804	8,892	90%
Delaware	2,433	4,474	2,041	84%
DC	3,029	2,264	-765	-25%
Florida	154,594	227,463	72,869	47%
Georgia	47,581	120,626	73,045	154%
Hawaii	N/I	2,256	N/A	N/A
Idaho	8,482	12,449	3,967	47%
Illinois	42,699	62,507	19,808	46%
Indiana	31,246	44,373	13,127	42%
Iowa	9,795	19,958	10,163	104%
Kansas	14,443	26,306	11,863	82%
Kentucky	18,579	55,593	37,014	199%
Louisiana	21,580	49,995	28,415	132%
Maine	13,657	22,742	9,085	67%
Maryland	18,072	93,081	75,009	415%
Massachusetts	67,852	113,034	45,182	67%
Michigan	26,652	37,148	10,496	39%
Minnesota	21	24	3	14%
Mississippi	13,218	20,451	7,233	55%
Missouri	49,529	73,825	24,296	49%
Montana	1,019	8,317	7,298	716%
Nebraska	9,713	11,400	1,687	17%
Nevada	7,802	15,946	8,144	104%
New Hampshire	4,554	4,272	-282	-6%
New Jersey	75,652	89,034	13,382	18%
New Mexico	4,500	6,106	1,606	36%
New York	521,301	769,457	248,156	48%
North Carolina	57,300	103,567	46,267	81%
North Dakota	266	2,573	2,307	867%
Ohio	83,688	111,436	27,748	33%
Oklahoma	40,196	57,719	17,523	44%
Oregon	27,285	37,092	9,807	36%
Pennsylvania	81,758	119,710	37,952	46%
Rhode Island	7,288	11,539	4,251	58%
South Carolina	45,737	59,853	14,116	31%
South Dakota	3,191	5,888	2,697	85%
Tennessee	9,732	14,861	5,129	53%
Texas	50,878	130,519	79,641	157%
Utah	13,040	25,294	12,254	94%
Vermont	2,055	4,081	2,026	99%
Virginia	16,895	37,681	20,786	123%
Washington	N/I	2,616	N/A	N/A
West Virginia	7,957	21,659	13,702	172%
Wisconsin	12,949	47,140	34,191	264%
Wyoming	N/I	2,547	N/A	N/A
TOTAL	1,959,330	3,333,879	1,374,549	70%
N/I - Program not implemented
Source: Health Care Financing Administration, Department of Health and Human Services

Fifteen states experienced more than a 100 percent increase in enrollment from last year. North Dakota saw the largest percentage increase (867 percent), followed by Montana (716 percent) and Maryland (415 percent). Twenty-three states are above the national average of 70 percent. Two states (Alabama and New Hampshire) and the District of Columbia reported reductions in their SCHIP enrollments. Hawaii, Washington and Wyoming did not have their programs implemented in FY 1999. Minnesota’s enrollment numbers are low because the state’s Medicaid program covered children in families with incomes up to 275 percent of the federal poverty level prior to the SCHIP law.

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Posted February 2001, reviewed December 2003.
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