Governor Pillen Directs DHHS to Seek Medicaid Work Requirement

Lincoln, NE – Governor Jim Pillen has directed the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to seek federal approval from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to apply a temporary high-unemployment hardship for Medicaid expansion beneficiaries residing in Dawson County, Nebraska.

If approved by CMS, Medicaid expansion recipients residing in Dawson County would be temp…