CMS Rejects MACPAC’s Advice To Pause Arkansas Work Requirements

The Trump administration is rejecting a recommendation from the federal Medicaid advisory commission to pause Arkansas’ controversial program of Medicaid work requirements, CMS Administrator Seema Verma told the commission’s chairwoman in a letter obtained by Inside Health Policy . The decision allows Arkansas to continue imposing the program on tens of thousands of additional Medicaid beneficiaries even though CMS still has not approved any formal plan for state and federal officials to evaluate the program’s results. A CMS spokesman told...