Inside CMS - 03/14/2019

Medicaid Work Requirements To Get Their Second Day In Court

By James Romoser / March 13, 2019 at 11:24 AM
Lawyers for Medicaid beneficiaries and the federal government will square off Thursday (March 14) for round two of the high-profile litigation over the legality of Medicaid work requirements -- and the arguments they make likely will sound familiar. Both sides will return to the courtroom of Judge James Boasberg for back-to-back hearings on whether CMS exceeded its authority in approving work requirements and other new restrictions on Medicaid coverage in Kentucky and Arkansas. Last June, the same legal teams appeared...


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