A Cancer Survivor Hoped To Work — Then She Lost Her Medicaid Disability Coverage By Katheryn Houghton Sept. 15, 2026

https://kffhealthnews.org/medicaid/disability-medicaid-work-requirements-cancer-state-reviews-montana/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9hu5aZAp8VHoQ2dZ3MfCFDoZRJ5T1T22wgb6UwyJikyvUuNVwuQPVjDIViG2oUcLhMAndmP1ig8eLrIRVRzaclK0f9Jw&_hsmi=439080835&utm_content=439080835&utm_source=hs_email KFF Health News: A Cancer Survivor Hoped To Work — Then She Lost Her Medicaid Disability Coverage Taya Hailstone has been in remission from childhood Hodgkin lymphoma for five years. But the cancer’s lasting damage to her organs and nerves can make basic tasks, like loading a dishwasher, hard. Still, Montana’s health department decided last year that Hailstone is no longer eligible for low-cost disability health coverage through Medicaid. The department switched her coverage to the state’s Children’s Health Insurance Program, another Medicaid program — three months before she aged out. (Houghton, 9/15)