Resources and Toolkits
Model Medicaid Community Engagement Outreach Notice (English/Spanish)
Plain-language notice template in English and Spanish so Medicaid agencies can help clients understand new work reporting requirements
Helping States Respond to the New Medicaid Rules
Piece on the need for states to work quickly to build Medicaid systems that serve clients efficiently and impactfully, with information related to CMS’s Interim Final Rule
Medicaid Auto-Renewals and Work Requirement Mandates: Lessons for States
Webinar session to discuss Medicaid unwinding lessons, strategies to coordinate work requirement and ex parte renewals, and methods toward designing flexible, efficient, and sustainable systems. Passcode: ^m3Q+Fuz
Data and Analytic Approaches for Medical Frailty Exemptions
Resource outlining data and analytic approaches to support states through the technology implementation and integration process for Medicaid work requirements, with a focus on medical frailty exemptions.
Metrics That Matter For States Under H.R. 1
Guide on how state agencies can develop legible and flexible metrics to assess implementation of new work requirements, outlining how to build, capture, and effectively utilize metrics to monitor impact for operational awareness and decisionmaking.
Implementing Medicaid Work Requirements
Implementation-oriented framework to support states with adapting to community engagement/work requirements. Features overview of “look back” period and four-step compliance flow including: checking for automatic hardship, screening for exemptions, checking for participation, and allowing for requestable hardship.
Advocates’ Guide to Automated Notices
Guide explaining automatic benefit notice generation process while walking through common underlying system errors (e.g. missing or incorrect information) providing insight on how back-end design decisions cause these issues. Provides strategies to improve notice process and output such as targeted questions on system logic, workarounds for caseworkers, and structural reform through data flow, boilerplate language,…
A Technical Guide for States to Reduce Procedural Terminations from Medicaid’s Work Requirements
Guide to provide states with policy and technical strategies to reduce procedural terminations under Medicaid work requirements, including simplifying verification processes, mitigating automation risks, managing vendor
Work Requirements Implementation Resources Toolkit
Repository of resources for state administrators to support the implementation of work requirement policies through overview of implications and recommendations of smart system designs and processes.
Elements of Successful Systems Design for H.R. 1 Implementation
Outlines four proactive strategies to design resilient and adaptable technical systems including feature flags, modularity, configurability, and phased approaches.