An administration effort to identify undocumented U.S. residents illegally enrolled in Medicaid is not turning up many undocumented residents illegally enrolled in Medicaid.
At least not so far.
Last fall, the administration sent the names of hundreds of thousands of suspected illegal Medicaid participants to the states and directed them to review the eligibility of those individuals.
Data from five states, however, has not turned up many such individuals.
Between them, Colorado and Pennsylvania reviewed 79,000 names and found none illegally enrolled in their state Medicaid programs.
Texas reviewed 28,000 records and terminated 77 people from the program.
Ohio checked the eligibility of 65,000 people and dropped 260 from its Medicaid rolls.
And Utah reviewed the eligibility of 8000 people and dropped 42 of them from its program.
Learn more about the effort to identify undocumented residents illegally enrolled in state Medicaid programs and what those efforts have yielded so far from the KFF Health News article “Trump’s Hunt for Undocumented Medicaid Enrollees Yields Few Violators.”

