GLOBAL RESEARCH ARCHIVE
Updating our State Level Medicaid Enrollment Tracker
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Updating our State Level Medicaid Enrollment Tracker
Managed Care
Updating our State Level Medicaid Enrollment July 8, 2026
Tracker
●Updating our Medicaid Enrollment tracker – We update our work on state
level Medicaid enrollment, utilizing individual state Medicaid data to analyze
membership over time – see our recent report here. With this report / slides we
update for March / April data with 74% / 36% represented vs. previous 62% /
18% as of last report in mid-May, and we also introduce May data for 4 states Justin Lake, CFA
that have provided it. March and April data indicate no slowdown in attrition jlake@wolferesearch.com
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with states updated thru March down -65bps of enrollment vs. -57ps / View Justin’s Research
-59bps respectively in Jan / Feb w/key question from here being whether View Comp Table
acuity of risk pool is stabilizing despite continued attrition. For states that Dillon Nissan
have reported April enrollment capturing 36% of enrollment is down -45bps dnissan@wolferesearch.com
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in the month vs. -109bps in March (driven by enrollment declines in New York)
and compared to Jan / Feb of -71 / -48bps respectively. As we illustrate on page Ben Tenner
btenner@wolferesearch.com
9 – of the 15 states that updated enrollment for April AR and IN were down the (646) 582-9289
most at -2.0% month over month which was partially offset by several states
showing growth including NJ which grew for the 3rd month in a row at +0.7%,
NM up +0.8%, WV up +0.3% and MN up +0.2%.
○January Cohort – Thru Jan we saw an overall decline of -60bps m/m
from Dec-Jan and that this sample represents 96% of 2025 year-end
enrollment.
○February Cohort – For States through Feb we saw an overall decline of
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