The percentage of citizens qualifying for both Medicaid and Medicare varies widely from state to state, according to data from a recent Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured report.
Dual eligibles account for as little as one out of every ten Medicaid enrollees in Utah to as many as one out of every four in Maine.
Here are the fifteen states with the highest percentage of people qualifying for both Medicaid and Medicare.
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Dual eligibles account for as little as one out of every ten Medicaid enrollees in Utah to as many as one out of every four in Maine.
Here are the fifteen states with the highest percentage of people qualifying for both Medicaid and Medicare.
- Maine — 26.3 percent
- Alabama — 22.9 percent
- North Dakota — 21.5 percent
- Kentucky — 21.0 percent
- New Jersey — 20.9 percent
- Wisconsin — 20.6 percent
- Mississippi — 20.5 percent
- Rhode Island — 20.2 percent
- Florida — 19.9 percent
- West Virginia — 19.8 percent
- New Hampshire — 19.5 percent
- Virginia — 19.3 percent
- Tennessee — 19.1 percent
- Vermont — 19.0 percent
- Connecticut — 18.7 percent
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