Funding cuts and program changes required by President Trump's big budget law are forcing states to rethink bipartisan efforts to bring Medicaid into jails and prisons.
Cody Coughenour of Port Angeles, Wash. is a beneficiary of a bipartisan policy experiment that allowed him to receive Medicaid before being released from incarceration.
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Trump admin freezes more than $1 billion in Medicaid funds
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Democrats probe DOJ finding that eases way for states to institutionalize mentally ill
The Trump administration is ramping up efforts to crack down on fraud in the federal Medicaid program.
States dealing with budget shortfalls are facing tens of millions of dollars in new costs ahead of the federal Jan. 1 deadline.
GOP focused on fraud while one Democrat said work requirements will set off a 'red-tape grenade'
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The moves continue a series of freezes to blue states' funding as part of a crackdown on fraud.
