Inside CMS - 01/17/2019

KY Beneficiaries Ask Court To Again Block Medicaid Work Requirements

By Michelle M. Stein / January 15, 2019 at 2:48 PM
Medicaid advocates are asking the federal judge who has already blocked Kentucky’s work requirement program from going into effect once to do so again, as the latest version of the lawsuit says the version of Kentucky HEALTH that was reapproved by CMS in November shares the same flaws as the prior version. “As with its first attempt, the Federal Defendants’ re-approval fails—for many of the same reasons that it failed before,” an amended version of the lawsuit says. Lawyers for...


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