State Medicaid Directors Trade Notes on Work Requirement Rollout

At the National Association of Medicaid Directors fall conference, CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz urged state officials to treat Medicaid work requirement implementation as a collaborative research project, comparing notes like "scientists." State officials spent the conference sharing strategies and concerns about meeting the implementation deadline, which is now under 80 days away. The gathering reflected widespread anxiety among states racing to build systems and processes for one of the largest operational changes to Medicaid eligibility in decades.

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