MACPAC Letter To Secretary Azar Regarding Implementation Of Work & Community Engagement Requirements

The letter was released on November 8, 2018, by the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC). The letter presents MACPAC concerns about early outcomes of the Arkansas Medicaid waiver linking eligibility to compliance with work and community engagement reporting. Arkansas is the first state to implement this waiver approach. MACPAC recommended that the federal Department of Health and Human Services pause member disenrollments because the failure to report rate indicated problems with member education or ability to report . . .