Iowa Medicaid Vendor Payments and Recipient Counts by Month

Aggregated Medicaid payments, client participation, and service days reported monthly for Iowa healthcare vendors starting July 2011. The State of Iowa publishes this data, which includes categories like Skilled Nursing Facilities and Intermediate Care Facilities. The dataset was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in monthly Medicaid payments to Skilled Nursing Facilities over time.
• Compare client participation counts across vendor categories like Residential Care Facilities and Community-Based Intermediate Care Facilities.
• Model the relationship between bed hold days and total payments for State Operated facilities.
• Forecast future Medicaid expenditures using historical payment and recipient data by month.

Strengths

• Time series data starting from July 2011, providing over a decade of monthly records.
• Covers six distinct vendor categories for facility-level analysis.

Limitations

• Specific row counts, payment volumes, and geographic granularity within Iowa are unknown.
• Data completeness and consistency across all vendor categories and months are not verified.

Provenance

Source

State of Iowa.

Collection Method

Aggregated administrative reporting from Medicaid vendors.

Time Range

From July 2011 onward.

Freshness

Updated to April 2026, indicating regular maintenance.

Geography

State of Iowa, USA.