Medicaid reaches record enrollment in Nevada

One in four Nevadans is now enrolled in a public health insurance program.

More than 810,000 Nevadans are now enrolled in Medicaid or Nevada Check Up, the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday. The record enrollment is an expected result of the pandemic and subsequent economic downturn.

In January 2020, 671,979 Nevadans were enrolled in Medicaid or Check Up.

One year later: 810,818 were.

The current fiscal year has seen a 14.6 percent increase in the total number of Medicaid recipients, according to a public data dashboard maintained by the state. The prior fiscal year saw the number of recipients increase by only half a percentage point, and the year before the number of recipients remained essentially flat.

Read more: https://www.nevadacurrent.com/2021/02/23/medicaid-reaches-record-enrollment-in-nevada/