News Report | April 7, 2021
HHS Revokes Permission For Four States To Implement Medicaid Work Requirements
As of April 6, 2021, the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has notified four states that it has revoked the state’s Medicaid waiver permitting the state to implement Medicaid work requirements. Arkansas and New Hampshire were notified on March 17, 2021, and Michigan and Wisconsin were notified on April 6. In the notices, HHS said work requirements were “not likely to promote the objectives of the Medicaid statute.”
Under the Trump administration, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) had granted Medicaid 1115 waivers to 10 states—Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire . . .