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Chronically ill people face confusion over new Medicaid work rules and ‘medically frail’ exemption
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Work requirements were created to help pay for President Trump’s tax cut law, passed a year ago.
Experts worry that the litany of unanswered questions surrounding medical frailty will lead to more vulnerable people getting kicked out of the program.
Information such as diagnostic codes, clinical encounter data, prescriptions, and hospitalizations can all be used to corroborate someone’s claim of medical frailty.
But the ultimate burden will probably fall to Medicaid patients and their doctors, given the data limitations, researchers told STAT.
Related Story Half of states sue over Medicaid work requirementsPart of the problem is that many people who will need to follow the Medicaid work requirements might not know it.