Oklahoma Withdraws Plan To Expand Medicaid, Leaving Issue To Voters

By James Romoser / May 29, 2020 at 7:24 PM
Oklahoma’s Republican governor, who earlier this year released a proposal to expand Medicaid and then accept block-grant-style funding for the expansion group, has abandoned the plan to expand eligibility even as the state’s block grant waiver proposal moves forward. In a letter to CMS on Thursday (May 28) , Oklahoma’s Medicaid director withdrew amendments to the state’s Medicaid plan that would have expanded the program in July. Also on Thursday, CMS opened a 30-day federal public comment period on the...


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