New Hampshire’s Experiences with Medicaid Work Requirements: New Strategies, Similar Results

This report studies New Hampshire’s Medicaid work requirement program to understand how it was implemented and why it appears to fail to protect coverage and promote work.

This case study, based on a series of key informant interviews and focus groups with Medicaid beneficiaries, builds on a prior Arkansas-focused study to provide additional evidence of the numerous problems associated with implementing Medicaid work requirements, exploring issues related to outreach, work supports, reporting systems, exemptions, and implications of coverage loss.