Medicaid Auto-Renewals and Work Requirement Mandates: Lessons for States

As the Medicaid work requirements implementation deadline nears, state leaders face a high-stakes balancing act: implementing new mandates without overwhelming the system, burning out workers, or suffering large losses of eligible Medicaid clients.

Drawing on the expertise Code for America and the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities have garnered through years of working to improve automatic Medicaid renewals, in this session we’ll dive into:

• Unwinding lessons: Applying hard-won lessons from the post-pandemic health care unwinding to meet today’s challenges.
• Integrating the blueprint: Coordinating work requirements and ex parte renewals to support both staff and clients.
• System Design: Making changes in flexible, efficient ways to ensure systems are compliant and future-proof.

Let’s leverage what we know to build a more resilient, frictionless renewal process.