Kentucky Medicaid Program Overview
Enrollment, funding, and managed care facts for Kentucky Medicaid.
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Kentucky Medicaid covered approximately 1.27-1.45M people. CMS's 2024 Medicaid Managed Care Enrollment and Program Characteristics report counted 1,449,651 total Kentucky Medicaid enrollees as of July 1, 2024; KFF's Total Monthly Medicaid & CHIP Enrollment indicator shows 1,272,217 as of May 2026. healthinsurance.org separately cites 'approximately 1.3 million' as of March 2026, an intermediate figure consistent with a real decline across this window (post-unwinding), not a data error.
Funding & federal match
Kentucky has adopted ACA Medicaid expansion, effective 2014-01-01.
For FFY2026 (Oct 1, 2025 - Sep 30, 2026), Kentucky's Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) is 71.41%.
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Sources
- CMS - Medicaid Managed Care Enrollment and Program Characteristics, 2024
- KFF State Health Facts - Total Monthly Medicaid & CHIP Enrollment
- KFF State Health Facts - Federal Matching Rate (FMAP) and Multiplier
- Congressional Research Service - Medicaid's Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP), R43847 (Table A-1)
- KFF State Health Facts - Status of State Action on the Medicaid Expansion Decision
- healthinsurance.org - Medicaid eligibility and enrollment in Kentucky
Data last verified 2026-09-17. Also see our free Medicaid Fee Schedule tool.