CMS Revokes Arizona, Indiana Work Requirements

CMS revoked Medicaid work requirement demonstrations in Arizona and Indiana Thursday (June 24), continuing the administration’s policy of weeding out such requirements from the Medicaid program. In letters to each of the states’ Medicaid directors, CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said requiring community engagement as a condition for eligibility is unlikely to promote the objectives of Medicaid, a repeat of the agency’s arguments to Arizona and Indiana, and to nine other states , on Feb. 12 giving notice the agency had...