Judge blocks Trump administration's Medicaid work requirement rule forcing proof of medical frailty
Also reported by ABC News
Summary
A federal judge in Boston blocked a Trump administration Medicaid rule that required some chronically ill people to prove their conditions significantly impaired their ability to meet work requirements to qualify as medically frail. The judge’s partial ruling came in a lawsuit filed by 25 states and the District of Columbia, which argued the rule went beyond a 2025 law.Key Facts
- U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns issued the ruling Thursday.
- The lawsuit challenges guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
- The 2025 law includes blind or disabled people, people with substance use or disabling mental disorders, and people with certain serious conditions in the definition of medically frail.
- The administration’s guidance required those people to show their condition also significantly impaired their ability to comply with work requirements.
- The coalition of 25 states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration in June.
- The states argued the stricter requirement could keep eligible Americans from getting needed care and exceeded the law’s wording.
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