Medicaid work requirements to take effect in fall 2020
About 120,000 Arizonans are going to have to prove they’re working, going to school or doing volunteer service to keep getting free health care.
But not just yet.
The Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the state’s Medicaid program, has unveiled its plans to implement the work requirements that were finally approved earlier this year by the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. And the first patients to be forced to prove they meet the qualifications are going to be from Maricopa, Pima and Yuma counties.
But AHCCCS spokeswoman Heidi Capriotti said that, at this point, no one is in danger of losing health care before fall of 2020. That’s because it’s taking longer than anticipated to not just put the rules and procedures in place, including setting up an online portal, but to have them approved by federal officials.
And, in fact, residents of the smallest counties – Apache, Gila, Graham, Greenlee, La Paz and Navajo – probably won’t be affected before 2022. Capriotti said that’s a simple recognition of the fact that it may be harder for rural residents to comply.
Read more: https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2019/09/10/medicaid-work-requirements-to-take-effect-in-fall-2020/
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