Yahoo

GA Medicaid program has high administrative costs, low enrollment, review says

The Georgia Pathways to Coverage program, which aims to expand health insurance coverage to low-income Georgians while adding work requirements, was reported as having high administrative costs and a ...
Heartland

Georgia Medicaid Work Program Stays Afloat, One Year Out

Georgia is the only state that requires some able-bodied adults to work to qualify for Medicaid, in a program that has reached its one-year anniversary, despite the opposition of the Biden ...
FOX 5 Atlanta

Georgia Medicaid program with work requirement off to slow start even as thousands lose coverage

ATLANTA - Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed paperwork creating a new state health plan for low-income residents to much fanfare at the state Capitol three years ago. But public health experts and ...
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Ga. Medicaid work mandate is extended despite its red tape

ATLANTA - Georgia’s program that provides health insurance to some low-income adults that document work or other activities has been extended for 15 months by President Donald Trump’s administration.
The Nation

Georgia’s Disastrous Medicaid Work Requirements

Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, said that 345,000 people would enroll in the state’s Medicaid program, which has strict work requirements—so far just 5,118 have. In 2023, when Georgia ...
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Ga. Medicaid work mandate could hold lessons for Congress

ATLANTA, Ga. - Georgia’s experiment with a work requirement for Medicaid offers a test of a similar mandate Republicans in Congress want to implement nationally, and advocates say the results so far ...
The Republic

Federal watchdog report on Georgia’s Medicaid program raises concerns about administrative costs

ATLANTA (AP) — A federal watchdog reported Thursday on a Georgia Medicaid program that requires able-bodied adults to document low-paying work to be eligible for health care, a model the Trump ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Georgia’s cautionary tale for hospitals as Medicaid work rules expand

Georgia cautionary tale highlights risks for hospitals as Medicaid work rules expand, urging early preparation to manage financial and operational impacts.
HealthLeaders Media

GA's Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Healthcare, GAO Says

Most of the tax dollars used to launch and implement the nation's only Medicaid work requirement program have gone toward paying administrative costs rather than covering health care for Georgians, ...
KLFY News 10

Georgia Medicaid program with work requirement off to slow start even as thousands lose coverage

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp ...
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Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program spent twice as much on administrative costs as healthcare, GAO says

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Most ...