---
language:
- en
pretty_name: Program Information for Medicaid and CHIP Beneficiaries by Month
tags:
- hhs
- cms
- chip
- medicaid
---

# Program Information for Medicaid and CHIP Beneficiaries by Month

## Description

This data set includes monthly enrollment counts of Medicaid and CHIP beneficiaries by program type (Medicaid or CHIP). 

These metrics are based on data in the T-MSIS Analytic Files (TAF). Some states have serious data quality issues for one or more months, making the data unusable for calculating these measures. To assess data quality, analysts adapted measures featured in the DQ Atlas. Data for a state and month are considered unusable or of high concern based on DQ Atlas thresholds for the topics Medicaid-only Enrollment and M-CHIP and S-CHIP Enrollment. Please refer to the DQ Atlas at http://medicaid.gov/dq-atlas for more information about data quality assessment methods. 

Some cells have a value of “DS”. This indicates that data were suppressed for confidentiality reasons because the group included fewer than 11 beneficiaries.

## Dataset Details

- **Publisher**: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- **Last Modified**: 2024-01-05
- **Contact**: Medicaid.gov (Medicaid.gov@cms.hhs.gov)

## Source

Original data can be found at: https://healthdata.gov/d/97m5-2uks

## Usage

You can load this dataset using:

```python
from datasets import load_dataset
 dataset = load_dataset('HHS-Official/program-information-for-medicaid-and-chip-benefici')
```
## License

This dataset is licensed under http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/