Indiana Becomes Second State With Medicaid Work Requirement

Indiana joined Kentucky as the second state with federal approval to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients.

The Feb. 2 waiver granted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services could mean dropping up to 25,000 people from Indiana’s 438,604-person Medicaid expansion population, according to the state’s request to implement the requirement. Indiana’s total Medicaid population is about 1.4 million.

The approval affecting Indiana is being watched around the country, both by liberals seeking to challenge these waivers and states seeking to rein in the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. At a Feb. 2 press conference, recently appointed Health ...