Assessment of Medicaid Beneficiaries Included in Community Engagement Requirements in Kentucky.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

States are pursuing Section 1115 Medicaid demonstration waiver authority to apply community engagement (CE) requirements (eg, participation in work, volunteer activities, or training) to beneficiaries deemed able-bodied as a condition of coverage. Understanding the size and characteristics of the populations included in these requirements can help inform policy initiatives and anticipate effects.

Objective

To estimate the number and characteristics of Kentucky Medicaid beneficiaries who would have to meet CE requirements.

Design, setting, and participants

Cross-sectional study in which administrative records for the entire population of Medicaid beneficiaries in Kentucky as of February 2018 and original survey data, based on responses from 9396 Medicaid ben

SUBMITTER: Venkataramani AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6647552 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature