Chronically Ill Community Responds to CMS Ruling on Medicaid

Communities living with energy-limiting, “invisible” chronic diseases are deeply concerned by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) interim final rule released last week that will make it even more difficult to receive exemptions from Medicaid work requirements than previously laid out in HR1 last fall. The interim rule will make the process of receiving work requirement exemptions more difficult for people with ME/CFS, Long COVID, and other infection-associated chronic conditions