Children's Health Insurance Patterns: A Review of the Literature

TABLE II.2

CPS AND HCFA(now known as CMS) ESTIMATES OF MEDICAID ENROLLMENT,

NONELDERLY AND CHILDREN, 1992 TO 1995

(Numbers in Millions)

    1992 1993 1994 1995
Nonelderly Enrollees (Age 0-64)        
CPS   26.5 29.0 28.7 29.0
HCFA(now known as CMS)   31.4 34.3 35.8 36.7
Underreporting Percent   15.6 15.5 19.8 21.0
   
Children Enrollees (Age 0-17)  
CPS   15.1 16.7 16.1 16.5
HCFA(now known as CMS)   18.4 20.2 21.0 21.4
Underreporting Percent   17.9 17.3 23.3 22.9
Source: CPS enrollment numbers from EBRI (1997a and 1997b)

HCFA(now known as CMS) enrollment numbers from 2082.

Notes: Child enrollees = number of children age 0-14 plus one-half of the children age 15-20.

HCFA(now known as CMS) data represent those ever enrolled during the year. CPS data are best interpreted as those enrolled at a point in time.

That the number of children with Medicaid fell from 1993 to 1994 in the CPS may be an artifact of the mid-decade shift in the sample framework for the CPS (Swartz, 1997).