FSSA hiring 400 employees to monitor Medicaid eligibility ahead of work requirements

(INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE) — The state agency overseeing Medicaid is hiring 400 employees to check the eligibility of the 560,000 low-income Hoosiers getting their health insurance through the Healthy Indiana Plan.

Fifty of those have been onboarded as state employees since the effort began last month, according to Family and Social Services Administration spokesman Marcus Barlow.

The hiring spree comes as FSSA prepares to comply with new state and federal work requirements, including more frequent eligibility checks.

State lawmakers voted to implement work requirements for Healthy Indiana Plan members starting on July 1, 2025 but were overridden by Congress. Federal work requirements for participants in Medicaid expansion programs nationwide take effect Jan. 1, 2027.

“Twenty years ago, Indiana created the Healthy Indiana Plan … to provide coverage for the uninsured, low-income working Hoosiers, the working poor — emphasis on the word ‘working,’” FSSA Secretar...