Doctors Concerned About Medicaid Work Rule
The ruling keeps 80-hour monthly work or community service requirements on track, while states must still build verification systems before the January deadline.
- On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns denied a preliminary injunction to halt the Trump administration's Medicaid work requirements, allowing the stricter rules to proceed toward their January 1 implementation deadline.
- To retain Medicaid coverage, recipients without young children must complete 80 hours of work or approved activities monthly unless they obtain a 'medically frail' classification, a standard critics argue creates excessive administrative burdens.
- Democratic states and the American Medical Association challenged the rule, with the medical group warning that verification paperwork diverts time from critical patient care and delays treatment schedules.
- Stearns noted the federal government covers 90 percent of state implementation costs, concluding financial and operational concerns did not meet the high legal threshold required to pause the policy.
- States must communicate the changes to enrollees by the end of August, though opponents retain the option to return to court if fresh evidence of operational harm emerges before implementation.
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