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Apr 23, 2026
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New York Braces for Trump's Big Medicaid Shakeup
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Amir Basiri
(New York State's Medicaid Director, guest)
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Executive Summary
A new federal law (H.R.
1) imposes work requirements and more frequent eligibility checks on approximately 20 million Medicaid recipients, with projections of nearly $1 trillion in spending cuts and over 7 million people losing coverage.
State Medicaid agencies, like New York's, are under intense pressure to implement these changes, facing significant technological, financial, and communication challenges to prevent catastrophic coverage losses.
Technology is a central focus, with states spending millions on new systems for near real-time income verification, weighing trade-offs between expensive established vendors, lower-cost alternatives, and new federal open-source tools.
Maintaining recipient trust is a critical challenge, as states must overcome skepticism about new data collection processes, especially amid reports of data sharing with federal immigration authorities like ICE.
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