New Medicaid work requirements are coming to Arkansas soon | Here are the changes

Next year, Arkansans on Medicaid will have to work, perform community service, or attend school unless they meet a certain ...
Texarkana Gazette

Arkansas’ Medicaid drops 2,133 new mothers in 3-month span after 60 days of coverage

When Danielle Wright was pregnant with her third child, she had coverage from a state Medicaid program to pay for her doctor visits. The program also provided coverage when she gave birth.
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Arkansas will ‘soft launch’ new Medicaid work requirements in July, agency says

State officials will implement new federal work requirements for Arkansas' Medicaid expansion program beginning in July through a "soft launch," they said Thursday. While the One Big Beautiful Bill ...
Yahoo

Arkansas to “soft launch” upcoming Medicaid work requirement checks

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mary Franklin, director of the Division of County Operations, Arkansas Department of Human Services listens during a media ...
KTHV

Arkansas will soon be the only state without extended postpartum Medicaid coverage

MADISON, Wis. — Women in Wisconsin will soon be eligible to receive expanded Medicaid coverage for up to a year after giving birth following near-unanimous passage of a measure Thursday by the ...
Yahoo

Arkansas DHS soft launching new Medicaid work requirements in July: What to know

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — The Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) officially announced on Monday that it will soft launch new work and community engagement requirements for many Medicaid ...
katv

Arkansas only state yet to extend postpartum Medicaid to a year after Wisconsin votes to

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Arkansas is the only state left in the country that has not expanded post-partum Medicaid coverage for new mothers to a full year. After last week, Wisconsin lawmakers approved in ...
Arkansas Times

Arkansas now the only state in the country to withhold Medicaid from new moms

Danielle Wright, a mother of three who lost her insurance 60 days after an emergency C-section, testified in 2025 in favor of extending Medicaid coverage for new moms. Credit: Brian Chilson Clinging ...

Trump’s Medicaid work mandates are meant to save money. But first states will have to spend millions

The big tax-cut law signed last year by Trump is financed, in part, by sweeping Medicaid changes intended to cut government ...
News4Jax

Wisconsin passes expanded Medicaid for moms, would leave Arkansas as only state without it

Democratic Wisconsin Assembly Minority Leader Greta Neubauer, surrounded by Democratic colleagues, speaks in support of measures to expand Medicaid coverage for new mothers and insurance coverage for ...

Here are the new Arkansas Medicaid work requirements coming in 2027

Starting in 2027, Arkansans on Medicaid will be facing new work requirements.
KTHV

Arkansas soon to become the only state without extended postpartum Medicaid coverage

LITTLE ROCK, Ark — Arkansas is set to become the only state without a full year of postpartum Medicaid coverage as lawmakers debate whether to extend benefits for new mothers beyond the current cutoff ...