New Medicaid Work Rule Means More Opportunities To Lose Coverage

Too sick to work? You’ll have to show it. Subsequent yr, Medicaid recipients should begin exhibiting documentation corresponding to a physician’s word to keep away from a brand new work requirement. KFF Well being Information correspondent Sam Whitehead broke down the rule and exceptions on WAMU’s Well being Hub on July 1.

Research, work, or volunteer: That’s what many individuals should do to maintain their Medicaid beginning subsequent yr, in line with new guidelines issued by the Trump administration. However shopper advocates fear the brand new necessities will catch many recipients flat-footed.

KFF Well being Information correspondent Sam Whitehead joined WAMU’s Well being Hub on July 1 to clarify who will probably be affected, who can get an exemption, and what enrollees can begin doing now to arrange.