Medicaid work requirement

CMS: Not Done With Medicaid Work Requirements

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 [...]

admin2018-07-18T09:24:15+00:00July 18, 2018|Medicaid|

CMS Rejects Bid to Impose Lifetime Limit on Medicaid Services

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has denied a request from the state of Kansas to impose a lifetime limit on the Medicaid benefits individuals may receive. In a move that the agency appeared to signal last week and that appears to have national implications, CMS administrator Seema Verma explained that We have determined that we will not approve Kansas’ recent request to place a lifetime limit on Medicaid benefits for some beneficiaries…We seek to create a pathway out of poverty, but we also understand that people’s circumstances change, and we must ensure that our programs are sustainable and [...]

admin2018-05-09T06:00:37+00:00May 9, 2018|Medicaid|

A New Wave of Medicaid Expansion?

Spurred by the Trump administration’s invitation to states to apply for approval to make work requirements a part of their Medicaid program, a number of states that spurned the opportunity created for expansion under the Affordable Care Act may consider pursuing Medicaid expansion in the near future. Currently, some elected officials in Idaho, Kansas, North Carolina, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming appear to be considering what they once considered unthinkable: making more of their residents eligible for Medicaid. For the most part, expansion talk is coming from moderate Republican legislators who believe a work requirement may help soften the staunch opposition [...]

admin2018-02-01T06:00:45+00:00February 1, 2018|Affordable Care Act, Medicaid|

Report Looks at Work Requirements

As a growing number of states consider implementing work requirements as a condition for Medicaid eligibility, the Urban Institute has released a report that describes work requirements in various government cash assistance, nutrition assistance, and housing assistance programs and considers the degree to which those requirements have achieved their policy objectives. The report also describes the applications that eight states have submitted to the federal government seeking permission to introduce a work requirement in their Medicaid programs. Go here to see the Urban Institute report Work Requirements in Social Safety Net Programs: A Status Report of Work Requirements in TANF, [...]

admin2018-01-09T06:00:48+00:00January 9, 2018|Medicaid|

The Prospect of a Medicaid Work Requirement

Over the past three years a dozen states have proposed establishing a work requirement for eligibility for their Medicaid programs and in its proposed FY 2018, the Trump administration has called for extending the ability to impose such a requirement to all states. But how would a Medicaid work requirement work? To whom would it apply and what kinds of work might satisfy such a requirement for the approximately 22 million Medicaid recipients (out of 76 million total recipients) to whom it might apply? A new Commonwealth Fund report looks at these and other issues. Go here to find the [...]

admin2017-05-31T16:28:01+00:00May 31, 2017|Medicaid, Medicaid regulations|