Inpatient Medicaid Utilization at Select Children's Hospitals.

Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program together provide health insurance for 78.6 million low-income Americans, including 37.3 million children. This study describes inpatient utilization at select U.S. children's hospitals by Medicaid-insured patients. Legislation passed in July 2025 changed Medicaid eligibility requirements. For this study, RAND researchers processed hospital cost report data for policymakers to analyze.