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Benjamin Hardy, a reporter with the Arkansas Nonprofit News Network and a 2018 AHCJ Health Care Performance Reporting Fellow, has just written a How I Did It essay on his coverage of Medicaid work requirements in Arkansas.
While seven states have received CMS approval of work requirements, Arkansas is the first to put them in effect. The rest are either being challenged in court, or in the implementation phase – or in question as a Democratic governor succeeds a Republican one. Several more states – eight, by my latest count – have requests pending before CMS and that number could grow. Continue reading