New lawsuit targets Medicaid work requirements’ medical frailty rules

Lawsuit targets ‘medically frail’ Medicaid work requirement exemption

A new lawsuit is challenging how the Trump administration plans to exempt medically frail people from Medicaid work requirements.  Medicaid enrollees, alongside several major health care advocacy organizations and the city of Columbus, Ohio, said the administration’s final rule implementing work requirements is not what Congress intended.  They argue the rule narrowly defines who qualifies…

The Hill•Nathaniel Weixel