STATISTICAL BRIEF #499: Trends in Enrollment, Offers, Eligibility and Take-Up for Employer-Sponsored Insurance: Private Sector, by State Medicaid Expansion Status, 2008-2015

STATISTICAL BRIEF #499: Trends in Enrollment, Offers, Eligibility and Take-Up for Employer-Sponsored Insurance: Private Sector, by State Medicaid Expansion Status, 2008-2015

AHRQ Stats: Declines in Employer-Sponsored Insurance

The insurance enrollment rate for private-sector employees in states that expanded Medicaid fell by 7.1 percentage points from 2008 to 2015, while the decline was 4.5 percentage points in non-expansion states. (Source: AHRQ, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Statistical Brief 499, Trends in Enrollment, Offers, Eligibility and Take-Up for Employer-Sponsored Insurance: Private Sector, by State Medicaid Expansion Status, 2008-2015.)

STATISTICAL BRIEF #499: Trends in Enrollment, Offers, Eligibility and Take-Up for Employer-Sponsored Insurance: Private Sector, by State Medicaid Expansion Status, 2008-2015

February 2017

Phil Cooper, PhD, Karen Davis, MA, and G. Edward Miller, PhD

Highlights

• From 2008 to 2015, the enrollment rate fell in both groups of states, but the decline was more rapid in expansion states than in non-expansion states (7.1 versus 4.5 percentage points).
• The decline in the eligibility rate in expansion states (from 2008 to 2015) accounts, in part, for the more rapid decline in enrollment rates in expansion states compared to non-expansion states.
• The larger decline in the take-up rate in expansion states than in non-expansion states also accounts for part of the differential trends in enrollment rates observed for expansion and non-expansion states.