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Medicaid waiver, grants and WorkSource expansions to boost pre‑release care and reentry services
Summary
State officials outlined a forthcoming Medicaid 1115 waiver implementation (pre-release services starting July 1, 2025), a state reentry grant program that has expanded funding and reach, and WorkSource plans to scale employment services tied to reentry.
State health and economic agencies described several concrete programmatic steps intended to strengthen health care, housing and employment supports for people leaving custody.
Tyrone Nixon of the Washington State Health Care Authority summarized the state’s approved Medicaid 1115 demonstration waiver, saying that beginning July 1, 2025 Apple Health (Washington’s Medicaid program) will pay for a targeted set of pre‑release services for Medicaid‑eligible adults and youth in prisons, jails and youth correctional facilities up to 90 days before release. Nixon listed covered items: "care management to diagnose, treat, and stabilize,"…
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