The continuing growth in states’ Medicaid programs has placed a severe financial strain on state budgets. In fiscal year 2024, Medicaid was the largest category of total state spending, consuming 29.8 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A health care worker gives pills to an incarcerated woman. The Wisconsin Legislature has passed a bill seeking a federal waiver to ...

CMS approved Wisconsin’s Section 1115 waiver to implement new work requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries Oct. 31. 1. Under the Social Security Act, Section 1115 waivers allow states to test ...

Republican legislators in Wisconsin voted to enact a work requirement for some Medicaid beneficiaries as Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers mulls ending the policy, according to The Cap Times. CMS ...

Over the course of the past four presidential administrations, the use of Medicaid 1115 waivers to address beneficiary health-related social needs has grown. At this time, twenty-five waiver projects ...