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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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The rollout of Medicaid work requirements may be delayed past the start of the year after 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 eligibility systems. Judge Richard D. Stearns of the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts ruled that federal regulations on who is too sick to work were too restrictive, and said that the suit from more than two dozen states successfully demonstrated that implementation of the Medicaid work requirements, as written, would cause “irrepar
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