Kentucky's Medicaid work requirement faces reckoning in court

Modern Healthcare: In a case with major national implications, the Trump administration and advocacy groups are set to argue in federal court in Washington Friday over whether the HHS secretary has the legal authority to allow Kentucky to establish a work requirement and other tough new conditions on people receiving Medicaid coverage.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, an Obama administration nominee, will hear oral arguments in the case, which was filed in January by the National Health Law Program, the Kentucky Equal Justice Center and the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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