Brief Examines State Requests to Impose Work Requirements in Medicaid
The proposed American Health Care Act (AHCA) includes a state option to make Medicaid eligibility for nondisabled, nonelderly, non-pregnant adults conditional upon satisfaction of a work requirement. Although the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services denied all state Section 1115 waiver requests to institute such work requirements under the Obama administration, earlier this month the Trump administration signaled in a letter to governors that CMS now would be open to considering such proposals. A new…