Despite the ruling of a federal court that Kentucky’s new Medicaid work requirement violates federal law, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has not ruled out approving future requests from state governments to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients.
Or so asserted CMS administrator Seema Verma at a recent health care event in Washington, D.C.
The Washington Examiner reports that at that event, Verma said that
We are looking at what the court said. We want to be respectful of the court’s decision while trying to push ahead with our policy and our goals.
CMS currently has applications from eight states to establish new Medicaid work requirements.
Learn more about the legal obstacles Medicaid work requirements have encountered and how CMS views those obstacles in this Washington Examiner article.