Child Health Plus Enrollment by County and Insurer from 2009

Child Health Plus enrollment data aggregates beneficiaries by eligibility year and month within each New York county and health plan. The dataset is published by health.data.ny.gov and was last updated on March 15, 2026. It tracks a government insurance program for eligible children up to age nineteen whose income falls within guidelines.

Use Cases

• Analyze enrollment trends over time using Eligibility Year and Eligibility Month columns.
• Compare insurer market share across counties using Plan Name and County columns.
• Model county-level enrollment drivers using Number of Enrollees, County, and Plan Name columns.
• Forecast future enrollment by aggregating historical counts from Eligibility Year and Eligibility Month columns.

Strengths

• Data provides temporal granularity with separate Eligibility Year and Eligibility Month columns.
• Includes geographic breakdown at the county level via the County column.
• Published by an official state government source, health.data.ny.gov.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

health.data.ny.gov

Collection Method

Likely administrative data aggregated from the Child Health Plus government insurance program.

Time Range

Beginning 2009

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-15 11:00:46; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New York State counties