Judge Blocks Kentucky’s Medicaid Work Requirements From Taking Effect

In a significant blow to the Trump administration’s effort to remake Medicaid, a federal judge ruled Friday (June 29) that CMS overstepped its authority when it approved work requirements and other coverage restrictions in Kentucky’s Medicaid program. The judge blocked all the new restrictions from taking effect just days before the state was scheduled to start rolling them out. Judge James Boasberg of the DC federal district court ruled that the agency’s January approval of an 1115 waiver authorizing the...