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Title: Who Could Be Affected by Kentucky’s Medicaid Work Requirements, and What Do We Know about Them?
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Publication Year: 2018
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Abstract: In January 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services approved Kentucky’s Section 1115 Medicaid demonstration waiver, which allows the state to require some beneficiaries to participate in “community engagement” activities for at least 80 hours a month to retain their Medicaid coverage. Qualifying activities are (among others) working, participating in community service, searching for jobs, attending school or vocational training programs, or receiving treatment for a substance use disorder. This is an unprecedented step for Medicaid, but such requirements may become increasingly common given that other states have also submitted waivers that would make coverage conditional on such activities (Hahn et al. 2017). An analysis of the state’s Medicaid enrollment projections following the waiver’s implementation estimates a 15 percent drop in Medicaid enrollment by its fifth year.
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Authors: Gangopadhyaya, Anuj; Kenney, Genevieve, M
Publisher: Urban Institute
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other, Population Health and Health Systems
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