Stay tuned for more Medicaid changes, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Seema Verma told a Las Vegas health care gathering last week.
CMS, she told her audience, will
…soon outline new opportunities for states to flip the Medicaid paradigm and free themselves from federal micromanagement.
While Verma offered few details, one idea clearly emerged: there will be more deregulation. She insisted, for example, that Medicaid work requirements are not dead. While such requirements have run into trouble in the courts in recent months, she explained that CMS is developing new implementation guidelines to address some of the challenges states have faced when introducing such requirements and made it clear that CMS would continue to approve state requests to require their Medicaid population to work or engage in volunteer activities.
Learn more about Verma’s remarks and the context in which they were offered in the Healthcare Dive article “CMS chief Verma teases more Medicaid deregulation.”