Modern Healthcare

January 18, 2019

By: Harris Meyer

Arizona on Friday became the eighth state to receive CMS approval for a waiver to establish a Medicaid work requirement.

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Arizona has not projected how many people will be disenrolled due to the work requirement, and has not estimated how much the program will cost to administer, she added. The state’s expansion currently covers an estimated 400,000 adults with incomes up to 138% of the federal poverty level. “The vast majority of those folks are likely to become uninsured for at least some period of time—exposing them to financial peril and worsening health,” Joan Alker, a Medicaid researcher at Georgetown University, wrote in a new blog post.

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