Montana’s new Medicaid expansion just got its first progress report, and it is exceeding expectations.

Initial projections were for about 23,000 of the state’s estimated 70,000 Medicaid-eligible residents to take up the new coverage in its first year. Instead, in the first quarter, since its rollout on Jan. 1, enrollment is at 38,298.

The report came Tuesday from the Medicaid expansion oversight committee that Montana’s legislature set up when it approved expansion last year.

Source: Texas Public Radio