CMS recently opened a new public comment period on Mississippi’s proposal to add Medicaid work requirements after the state tweaked its waiver request in an attempt to resolve the agency’s concerns about beneficiaries who would fall into a so-called subsidy cliff. Among non-expansion states seeking 1115 waivers to add work requirements to Medicaid, Mississippi is one of the furthest along in the process. But CMS Administrator Seema Verma has expressed hesitancy about approving such waivers in non-expansion states. In states...