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Medicaid Modified Adjusted Gross Income & Children’s Health Insurance Program Application Processing Time Report

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CMS is releasing a new monthly Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility Operations and Enrollment Snapshot. The report provides current month and annual retrospective data on national and state-level Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) eligibility and enrollment operations, as well as Marketplace and Basic Health Program enrollment. This new report streamlines the monthly Medicaid and CHIP eligibility and enrollment reports CMS released in the past. 

The MAGI and CHIP Application Processing Time Report will be phased out with the release of the new Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility Operations and Enrollment Snapshot. The historical reports on this page will remain available.

The data included in this report series represent the timeliness of state Medicaid Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI) Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) determinations on applications.

States submit these data to CMS as part of the Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility and Enrollment Performance Indicators process. These data represent the length of time it took state Medicaid and CHIP agencies to conduct all final MAGI determinations for people at application, regardless of the application date.

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About this Report Series

In recent years, states have significantly improved their eligibility, enrollment, and renewal processes for Medicaid and CHIP. These improvements enable states to process Medicaid and CHIP determinations in more accurate, timely, and efficient ways. This report series highlights states’ MAGI and CHIP application processing time data. Application processing time data are constantly changing.

State policies and practices and external factors can all affect the data. External factors include application volume and state policy and practices around verification of information, staffing, and level of automation in a state’s eligibility system.