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CMS Chief To Sit Out Watershed Decision On Medicaid Work Mandate In Kentucky

KFF Health News Original

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma will recuse herself from the agency’s decision-making on whether to approve Kentucky’s Medicaid waiver because she helped develop the proposal in her former job as a health policy consultant.

In Depressed Rural Kentucky, Worries Grow Over Medicaid

KFF Health News Original

Low-income residents in poverty-stricken Clay County worry what will happen to their health care if Gov. Matt Bevin’s ambitions to overhaul the state’s Medicaid program go forward.