Medicaid’s Repeal of Georgia Work Requirements Found Unlawful (1)

Georgia can impose work requirements as a condition of Medicaid eligibility after a federal district court held the Biden administration’s withdrawal of approval for those requirements was arbitrary and capricious.

The decision allows the state to move forward with its Georgia Pathways plan, which it says would add roughly 60,000 people to its Medicaid rolls. It’s also a setback for the administration’s efforts to nix work requirements.

The Department of Health and Human Services “failed to consider or weigh the (likely) possibility that rescinding Pathways would mean less Medicaid coverage in Georgia,” Judge Lisa Godbey Wood of the US District ...