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CMS Rejects New Hampshire’s Request For Medicaid Work Requirement, Proof Of ID

Modern Healthcare

By: Virgil Dickson

New Hampshire’s Medicaid waiver request has not been approved by CMS, because it imposed a work requirement of 30 hours per week for their Medicaid’s beneficiaries. It also required that all adults were U.S. citizens with two forms of IDs, and for non-emergency visits to the emergency room to cost $8 for the first visit and $25 for each other visit. However, CMS is allowing for New Hampshire to reapply for Medicaid.

That proposal, “would cause massive delays in coverage for many Medicaid beneficiaries,” Georgetown Center for Children and Families said in a comment. The current process that verifies identification through data matches is quick and accurate, the center added.

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