KY’s Work Requirement Evaluation Would Exempt 10% Of Beneficiaries

Kentucky’s Cabinet of Health and Family Services touted an independent evaluator’s plan to use a randomized control population to evaluate the state’s controversial work requirements program, but the evaluation’s approval is now on hold as CMS appeals a pair of judicial decisions that blocked Medicaid work requirements in Arkansas and Kentucky. A federal district court judge in March invalidated CMS’ approvals of 1115 waivers that had authorized Arkansas and Kentucky to add work requirements and other new restrictions to their...