Iowa Medicaid Payments and Recipient Counts by County and Month

Aggregate Medicaid payments and counts for eligible and served recipients are organized by month and Iowa county. Data begins with records for the month ending January 31, 2011, and is published by the State of Iowa. The dataset includes information on eligibility groups and medically needy recipients.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in Medicaid payments per county over time using the month and payment columns.
• Model the relationship between eligible recipient counts and recipients served counts across different counties.
• Compare enrollment and service delivery patterns between different Medicaid eligibility groups.
• Assess seasonal or annual fluctuations in healthcare spending using the monthly payment time series.

Strengths

• Data spans from January 2011 onward, providing a multi-year time series.
• Granularity includes both monthly and county-level breakdowns for Iowa.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column names, and data size are unknown.
• Data is limited to the state of Iowa, limiting geographic generalizability.

Provenance

Source

State of Iowa.

Collection Method

Aggregated administrative records from the Medicaid program.

Time Range

From month ending January 31, 2011 onward.

Freshness

Last updated on April 4, 2026, indicating active maintenance.

Geography

State of Iowa, with county-level breakdown.