Share of Children with Medicaid/CHIP Who Have Special Health Care Needs
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2024
Location Share of Children with Medicaid/CHIP Who Have Special Health Care Needs
United States 0.3523 Alabama 0.3364 Alaska 0.4065 Arizona 0.3245 Arkansas 0.3530 California 0.2456 Colorado 0.3691 Connecticut 0.3445 Delaware 0.3772 District of Columbia 0.4170 Florida 0.2958 Georgia 0.3509 Hawaii 0.2020 Idaho 0.3408 Illinois 0.3172 Indiana 0.3525 Iowa 0.4069 Kansas 0.3979 Kentucky 0.4174 Louisiana 0.3949 Maine 0.4361 Maryland 0.2883 Massachusetts 0.3639 Michigan 0.4019 Minnesota 0.3676 Mississippi 0.3553 Missouri 0.4830 Montana 0.3704 Nebraska 0.3395 Nevada 0.3283 New Hampshire 0.5031 New Jersey 0.2920 New Mexico 0.3107 New York 0.3361 North Carolina 0.3168 North Dakota 0.4337 Ohio 0.3877 Oklahoma 0.3609 Oregon 0.3403 Pennsylvania 0.4750 Rhode Island 0.3811 South Carolina 0.4085 South Dakota 0.4594 Tennessee 0.3522 Texas 0.4320 Utah 0.3877 Vermont 0.4045 Virginia 0.3872 Washington 0.3472 West Virginia 0.3813 Wisconsin 0.3949 Wyoming 0.4349
Notes
The table shows the share of children ages 0-17 with Medicaid/CHIP coverage who meet the expanded special health care needs criteria.
All information about children's health conditions from the National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) is based on parent recollection and is not independently verified.
The NSCH uses the Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) Screener to identify children with special health care needs. The Screener is a five item, parent-reported tool designed to reflect the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau’s consequences-based definition of children with special health care needs. More information about CSHCN and the CSHCN Screener can be obtained on the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative’s website .
The children who meet the expanded special health care needs criteria measure includes those identified by the Screener and/or children with at least one of the 22 health conditions asked about in the survey AND at least one of the 10 functional difficulties asked about in NSCH.
For more information on children with special health care needs and Medicaid, see 5 Key Facts About Children with Special Health Care Needs and Medicaid .
Missing values due to non-response or a “don’t know” response are not included in the denominator for calculation of prevalence estimates and weighted population counts. In the majority of cases, the proportion of missing values is less than 2%.
Sources
KFF analysis of 2024 National Survey of Children's Health .