STAT+: State officials scrambling to implement Medicaid work requirements meet up to swap notes

State Medicaid directors at their fall conference urgently exchanged practical lessons on implementing federal work requirements, with less than 80 days until the deadline. CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz urged officials via video to share notes like scientists comparing lab records. Attendees called it one of the biggest changes to Medicaid in decades, with an atmosphere of a group project racing a deadline.