Though it punts on scaling back expansion,

CMS Approves Medicaid Work Requirements In Arkansas

By James Romoser / March 7, 2018 at 9:24 PM
Arkansas became the third state to obtain federal permission to add work requirements to its Medicaid program on Monday (March 5), but CMS postponed a decision on Arkansas' proposed rollback of its Medicaid expansion. Arkansas joins Kentucky and Indiana in receiving CMS' approval of waivers that allow those states to condition Medicaid benefits for able-bodied adults on having a job, going to school or receiving job training. More than a dozen other states either have pending requests with CMS to...


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