Doctors ‘cringe’ at possibility of documenting which Medicaid enrollees too sick to work

KFF Health News – Monday, July 20, 2026
By Sam Whitehead

Alice Thornton has spent more than two decades treating people living with HIV in Lexington, Kentucky.
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Her team tends to “cringe” anytime they hear about patients having to fill out lots of paperwork, like when applying for Social Security Disability payments, because it can be a difficult, burdensome process.

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