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REPORTING REQUIRED: DHS Director Cindy Gillespie has overseen the agency\u2019s rollout of the work rule<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Arkansas's first-in-the-nation\u00a0work requirement for certain Medicaid beneficiaries expanded in January to include some 45,000 additional people, according to\u00a0a\u00a0monthly report\u00a0from the state Department of Human Services<\/a>\u00a0released on Friday. The new group subject to the rule includes the first cohort of beneficiaries in the 19-29 age range. Last year, the policy applied only to those ages 30-49.<\/p>\n

In 2018,\u00a018,164 people on the Arkansas Works program \u2014 the state's name for its hybrid public-private version of Medicaid expansion \u2014\u00a0lost their health insurance because of the work rule<\/a>.\u00a0A study published by\u00a0the Kaiser Family Foundation in December\u00a0<\/a>found many beneficiaries were unclear about how to stay in compliance with the policy, which includes complex rules regarding exemptions and reporting. Anecdotally, some of those who lost coverage were working but did not report their hours to the state.<\/p>\n

If a beneficiary fails to report sufficient work hours for any three months in a\u00a0calendar year, he or she is kicked off Arkansas Works and locked out of reapplying until the next year begins. Out of the 18,164 who lost coverage last year, 1,452 have applied for and regained coverage so far in 2019, the new DHS report says.<\/p>\n

Because the three-month clock resets with a new calendar year, no beneficiaries lost coverage in January due to the work requirement. However,\u00a010,258\u00a0of the 105,158 people\u00a0subject to the rule were out of compliance last month.<\/p>\n

If those beneficiaries also fail to meet the requirement for February and March (or any other two months in 2019), they will be locked out of the program for the rest of the year. The policy requires beneficiaries to work at least 80 hours each month\u00a0or complete an equivalent amount of school, volunteer hours or certain other activities.<\/p>\n

The DHS report says 94,900 \"met [the]\u00a0requirement due to work, training, or other activity\" in January. But the vast majority of those people did not report anything to the state. Over half of them (50,107) were simply assumed to be employed for at least 80 hours, an assumption DHS based on income information the agency has on file. Another\u00a043,220 qualified for an exemption because of various life circumstances, such as having a dependent child in the home.<\/p>\n

Only\u00a01,573 beneficiaries actually reported \"work activity\" hours to DHS in January \u2014 less than 2 percent of those subject to the requirement.<\/p>\n

The January numbers also highlight the ongoing issue of people losing coverage for reasons\u00a0besides<\/i>\u00a0the work requirement. There were 13,503 Arkansas Works cases closed last month, mostly for what might be called \"paperwork compliance\" issues. Over half of the closures were because a beneficiary changed addresses or did not respond quickly enough to a letter from DHS. That continues a trend\u00a0seen in the program throughout the last year.<\/a><\/p>\n

Arkansas Works enrollment has been reduced by around 100,000 over the past two years. It peaked at around 330,000 in January 2017; on Feb. 1, 2019, it was about 234,400.<\/p>\n

DHS also released its monthly Medicaid enrollment and expenditure report on Friday. In addition to Arkansas Works, 240,349 adults were enrolled in traditional Medicaid categories, including disabled people and elderly beneficiaries. ARKids, the state's insurance program for children, included\u00a0another\u00a0405,322 beneficiaries. Only Arkansas Works enrollees are subject to a work requirement.<\/p>\n

This reporting is published courtesy of the Arkansas Nonprofit News Network, an independent, nonpartisan project dedicated to producing journalism that matters to Arkansans. Find out more at\u00a0arknews.org<\/a>.
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