Eligibility Assistance Increases Insurance Enrollment Within Community Health Centers But Not At The State Level

In an article in the May 2025 edition of Health Affairs, Leighton Ku, Kristine Namhee Kwon, Feygele Jacobs and Sara Rosenbaum examine the effects of eligibility assistance on insurance enrollment at both the health center and state levels, finding that eligibility assistance modestly increases insurance coverage among health center patients, but this assistance does not significantly increase overall Medicaid, CHIP, or Marketplace enrollment, nor does it raise federal expenditures.