Retail, gaming giants benefit from changes to how Nevada calculates list of top Medicaid employers

By: April Corbin Girnus

Outlets: Nevada Current

Published: January 21, 2026

Words: 710

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 4 days ago

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Nevada has changed how it calculates its list of the top employers of Medicaid recipients. But Amazon is still solidly at the top of the list.

Fellow retail giant Walmart and Clark County School District also remain the second and third top employer of Nevada Medicaid recipients, respectively.

Meanwhile, gaming companies saw steep drops in the ranking.

Rounding out the top five in this year’s report are the State of Nevada and Tesla. The …

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