2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

Health Care Access

Health care coverage status past 12 months*

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  Total
Respond.^
Continuously insured for the past 12 months Uninsured for part or all past 12 months Uninsured for more than 1 year
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,553 2,998 84.8 83.4-86.2 209 6.0 5.1- 7.0 346 9.2 8.1-10.3
Medicaid Region 5 461 389 85.0 80.9-88.4 33 7.3 4.9-10.6 39 7.7 5.4-10.8
GENDER
Male 207 176 84.5 78.1-89.3 16 8.1 4.8-13.5 15 7.3 4.2-12.4
Female 254 213 85.4 79.7-89.8 17 6.5 3.6-11.5 24 8.0 5.1-12.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 277 250 88.7 83.5-92.4 18 7.4 4.5-11.9 *** *** ***
Non-Hispanic Black 88 76 85.7 74.0-92.6 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 89 58 74.1 63.4-82.6 *** *** *** 24 19.6 12.5-29.5
AGE
18-44 157 119 78.6 70.6-84.9 16 10.2 5.7-17.5 22 11.2 7.1-17.2
45-64 153 122 82.0 74.5-87.7 17 10.0 6.0-16.2 14 7.9 4.3-14.2
65+ 146 144 98.4 92.4-99.7 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 161 118 77.8 69.9-84.1 17 10.7 6.2-17.9 26 11.5 7.5-17.2
Some Post-H.S. 129 113 88.4 80.9-93.2 *** *** *** *** *** ***
College Graduate 170 157 91.6 85.5-95.3 *** *** *** *** *** ***
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 142 107 76.2 67.2-83.4 18 12.9 7.5-21.4 17 10.9 6.6-17.5
$50,000+ 203 184 89.3 83.3-93.4 11 6.2 3.3-11.5 *** *** ***
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 113 95 86.8 78.3-92.4 *** *** *** 14 10.6 5.7-19.0

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*Data in this table were derived from the health insurance question and health coverage questions from the Adult Insurance state module

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2024 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2024 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

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