Health Justice Leah Chan New Legislation and Continued Failure to Expand Medicaid Put Georgia’s Health Care Safety Net on Uncertain Path May 3, 2023 / May 5, 2023 by Leah Chan State Plans to Launch Two New, State-Run Health Care Programs While Unwinding Medicaid Continuous Coverage In April 2023, the state began the 14-month process to redetermine the eligibility of all 2.7 million Georgians covered by Medicaid and PeachCare. On its own, this process is a massive, complex undertaking. It places pressure on our state agencies […] Read more » continuous coverage Department of Human Services DHS Georgia Access Model health insurance health insurance marketplace medicaid medicaid unwinding PeachCare
Fact Sheets Health Justice Leah Chan Money Matters: Comparing the Costs of Full Medicaid Expansion to the Pathways to Coverage Program January 11, 2023 / February 22, 2023 by Leah Chan Updated February 22, 2023: In the October 2020 Pathways to Coverage approval letter, it was estimated that the program would cover about 31,000 Georgians in the first year and 64,000 Georgians at full enrollment. In December 2022, the Department of Community Health estimated that up to 100,000 Georgians could enroll in the first […] Read more » 1115 waiver Affordable Care Act health health coverage health insurance health-care medicaid Medicaid Expansion
Fact Sheets Health Justice Leah Chan Getting the Green Light for Health Care: An Update on Efforts to Get More Georgians Covered August 31, 2022 / January 10, 2023 by Leah Chan Updated January 10, 2023: In August 2022, a federal judge in Georgia cleared the way for the Pathways Coverage program to proceed. The federal government opted not to make an appeal during the 60-day window, and in October 2022, the Department of Community Health announced that it was moving forward with planning for […] Read more » 1115 waiver 1332 waiver Affordable Care Act health health coverage health insurance health-care medicaid Medicaid Expansion
GBPI In The News Audit: GA Medicaid oversight is uncoordinated, risks overpaying, fraud July 21, 2020 / July 23, 2020 by Alex Welch Georgia’s faulty oversight of private Medicaid management contractors has left the state’s Medicaid program vulnerable to overpaying for health care and to fraud, a state auditor’s report has found. Over seven years from 2013 to 2019, a total of $41 million in claims the contractors paid out for Medicaid “were not subject to adequate oversight […] Read more » Budget COVID-19 health insurance health-care medicaid
Blog Health Justice Laura Harker Legislation Proposes Steps to Improve Rural Health Care, Omits Major Coverage Solution March 12, 2018 / January 14, 2020 by Laura Harker State lawmakers introduced several bills this year aiming to improve access to health care in rural Georgia. Six rural Georgia hospitals closed since 2013 and the state’s high rate of uninsured means many people in rural communities lack health coverage. The House Rural Development Council, created in 2017 to study the problem, traveled across the […] Read more » coverage-gap HB 769 HB 827 health health coverage health insurance medicaid Medicaid Expansion micro-hospitals Rural hospitals
GBPI In The News Feds make financial pitch for Medicaid expansion June 5, 2015 / January 16, 2020 by GBPI Admin The Obama administration rolled out new statistics this week to buttress the argument that Georgia should expand its Medicaid program. Read more. Read more » health insurance medicaid Tim Sweeney
GBPI In The News Grady Health System outlines plan to transform care for the uninsured May 8, 2015 / January 15, 2020 by GBPI Admin Grady Health System realized it couldn’t count on Medicaid expansion anytime soon, so it went looking for a different path. Read more. Read more » health insurance medicaid Tim Sweeney
GBPI In The News Georgia still high in unsinsured February 24, 2015 / January 15, 2020 by GBPI Admin Nearly one in five people in Georgia still lack health insurance while other southern states that expanded Medicaid saw dramatic improvement of uninsured rates, according to the director of health policy for the Georgia Budget & Policy Institute. Read more. Read more » health insurance medicaid Tim Sweeney
GBPI In The News School bus drivers could lose health insurance in state plan January 23, 2015 / January 16, 2020 by GBPI Admin Bus drivers and other school employees who work less than 30 hours a week won’t be eligible to enroll in the state health insurance program under a state Department of Community Health proposal. Read more. Read more » health insurance medicaid Tim Sweeney
GBPI In The News Some area counties lag state in health insurance August 29, 2012 / January 17, 2020 by GBPI Admin GBPI Director of Health Policy Tim Sweeney is quoted on this article about the varying uninsured rates in Georgia amongst different counties. Read full article here. Read more » health insurance Tim Sweeney
