A Mississippi waiver request to impose work requirements on Medicaid enrollees recently opened for federal comment, according to The Hill.
Here are seven things to know about the waiver.
1. If the Trump administration approves it, the five-year waiver request would require all adults without disabilities enrolled in Medicaid to complete at least 20 hours per week of workforce training.
2. Under the waiver, Medicaid recipients who do not work, complete job training, undergo drug treatment or complete other approved activities will be ineligible for the program.
3. CMS officials issued a letter to state Medicaid directors Jan. 11 making it easier for states to mandate Medicaid work requirements.
4. "Approximately twenty-five percent of Mississippi's population is enrolled in Medicaid and we believe our proposal to provide workforce training opportunities to those who qualify, will enable us to reduce the number of individuals who churn in and out of Medicaid on a routine basis," the waiver read, according to The Hill.
5. Mississippi has some of the strictest Medicaid eligibility rules in the nation, and in order to be eligible for coverage, a single parent must make less than $227 per month for a family of four.
6. Kentucky the first state to receive federal approval for Medicaid work requirements earlier this month, while Mississippi is among nine other states that submitted waiver requests.
7. Mississippi already closed its public comment period on the proposal, but federal comments will be accepted through Feb. 23.