Idahoans Who Are ‘Medically Frail’ Are Exempt From Medicaid Work Requirements. How Do You Prove It? - The Mexico Ledger

Chronically ill people face confusion over new Medicaid work rules and ‘medically frail’ exemption

Patients, advocates, and experts fear the difficulty in documenting a frailty exemption to Medicaid work requirements will lead to millions losing coverage.

Idahoans who are ‘medically frail’ are exempt from Medicaid work requirements. How do you prove it? - The Mexico Ledger

Advocates for Idaho Medicaid and people with disabilities rally against proposed federal Medicaid cuts in front of the Idaho State Capitol on Thursday, March 20, 2025. (Kyle Pfannenstiel/Idaho Capital Sun)Starting next year, Idahoans on Medicaid expansion will need to prove they’re working to keep accessing the health insurance public assistance program. That’s only if they don’t meet one of several carveouts, like going to school, or being a ca…

Idahoans who are ‘medically frail’ are exempt from Medicaid work requirements. How do you prove it?

Advocates for Idaho Medicaid and people with disabilities rally against proposed federal Medicaid cuts in front of the Idaho State Capitol on Thursday, March 20, 2025. (Kyle Pfannenstiel/Idaho Capital Sun)Starting next year, Idahoans on Medicaid expansion will need to prove they’re working to keep accessing the health insurance public assistance program. That’s only if they don’t meet one of several carveouts, like going to school, or being a ca…

ATR Files Comments Supporting Medicaid Work Requirement Rule

Today, Americans for Tax Reform filed comments in strong support of the CMS interim final rule implementing Medicaid work requirements, urging the agency to finalize it as is. ATR’s comments assert that able-bodied, unemployed adults create a superfluous strain on the Medicaid system, putting its ability to provide for those who need it (and its very existence) in jeopardy, and also that these beneficiaries divert care itself away from the most …

Idaho’s strict Medicaid work requirements to start next year. Most meet the rules, official says

Idaho state health officials plan to start implementing work requirements for people on Medicaid expansion starting next year.

Doctors ‘cringe’ at possibility of documenting which Medicaid enrollees are too sick to work

By Melissa Patrick, Kentucky Health News · July 27, 2026 Alice Thornton has spent more than two decades treating people living with HIV in Lexington, Kentucky. Her team tends to “cringe” anytime they hear about patients having to fill out lots of paperwork, like when applying for Social Security Disability payments, because it can be a difficult, burdensome process. Thornton tries to support her patients, she said, but understands the limits of …