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STAT+: Federal judge rejects new Medicaid ‘frailty’ definition for work requirements
Publication: STAT
Author: O. Rose Broderick, Anil Oza,and Isabella Cueto
Source published: 29/10/2026, 18:57:37 UTC
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A federal judge on Thursday rejected the federal government’s new definition of “medical frailty” and ruled that states did not have adequate time or resources to overhaul their eligibility systems, injecting new uncertainty into the imminent rollout of Medicaid work requirements across the country. Judge Richard D. Stearns of the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts ruled that federal regarding who is considered too sick to work was overly restrictive, and said that the suit from over two dozen states successfully demonstrated that implementation of the Medicaid work requirements, as written,
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