CMS will open a new 30-day comment period on Kentucky's proposed Medicaid work requirements after a judge rejected the proposal last month and sent it back to the agency, according to The Hill.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said Kentucky officials did not properly consider that nearly 95,000 Kentucky Medicaid recipients would lose coverage as a result of the work requirements and ruled that the proposed measures must face further scrutiny from CMS.
"CMS is planning to open a new 30-day federal public comment period on the KY HEALTH demonstration to better inform any future decision on the demonstration that was remanded back to the department for further review," a CMS spokesperson said.