Modern Healthcare

By: Harris Meyer

South Carolina will become the first state to apply Medicaid work requirements to parents of minor children with incomes under 100% of the federal poverty level, after the CMS approved the state’s waiver request Thursday… South Carolina’s waiver approval may be even more vulnerable to a legal challenge than those in other states, said Joan Alker, executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University. That’s because low-income parents are a mandatory rather than an optional coverage group.

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