Alabama Medicaid Work Requirements Plan Moving Ahead

Alabama is moving forward with a plan to impose Medicaid work requirements on a small portion of its population, after Kentucky and Indiana recently won federal approval for similar rules.

Alabama’s Medicaid agency published a draft of the waiver request it plans to file with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the state is taking public comments on the proposal through April 2.

The state joins a growing list of states seeking to impose work requirements for Medicaid eligibility, after the CMS approved such requirements for the first time this year—green-lighting Kentucky’s request in January and Indiana’s plan ...