Medicaid Waiver Coverage for Childless Adults Across U.S. States, 1996–2014

51 state and district entries document the presence and characteristics of Medicaid coverage for adults without dependent children from 1996 to 2014. Marguerite Burns at the University of Wisconsin–Madison compiled this dataset using federal waiver documents, state reports, policy organization analyses, and news articles. Onsite data collection at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in January 2016 was conducted to review non-digitized earlier documents.

Use Cases

• Analyzing state-level policy adoption and variation based on waiver characteristics mentioned in the description
• Tracking changes in healthcare coverage eligibility for a specific demographic over the 18-year period
• Modeling the relationship between policy characteristics and potential health outcomes based on the documented sources

Strengths

• Covers 51 U.S. states and districts over an 18-year period (1996–2014)
• Compiled from multiple authoritative sources including federal waiver documents and state reports
• Includes data from non-digitized documents obtained via onsite collection at a federal agency

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Provenance

Source

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Collection Method

Compiled from section 1115 Waiver documents, state reports, policy organization analyses, news articles, and onsite data collection.

Time Range

1996 – 2014

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown.

Geography

U.S. states and the District of Columbia