CMS Tells Court To Allow States To Test Medicaid Work Requirements

The Trump administration told a federal appeals court Thursday (July 18) that states should be able to continue testing Medicaid work requirements even as the administration acknowledged problems in how Arkansas initially implemented its first-in-the-nation work requirement program. “The experience with the rollout of the Arkansas project underscores the value of testing experiments at the local level--where changes can be made quickly -- before policies are established nationwide,” government lawyers wrote in their final brief to the U.S. Court of...