How Medicaid’s New Work Requirement Will Work

Poor Americans will face new challenges to enroll, and states will have to build new bureaucracies. Medicaid, the public ...
WABE

Federal Medicaid cuts placing more pressure on Georgia’s rural hospitals, advocates say

The cuts to Medicaid under the One Big Beautiful Bill has caused revenue losses for rural hospitals that treat large numbers of Medicaid recipients. On Thursday’s edition of “Closer Look,” Dr. Joy ...
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Georgia extends Medicaid work requirement program to 2026

Georgia’s Medicaid Pathways to Coverage program has been extended 15 months through December 2026. A recent watchdog report found the program spent more on administrative costs than on providing care.
AFRO American Newspapers

Medicaid cuts in Republicans’ spending bill threaten rural hospitals, disaster preparedness

Medicaid cuts threaten rural hospitals and communities across the US, potentially leaving millions uninsured and forcing closures of vital healthcare facilities.
Yahoo

Federal report on Georgia suggests implementing Medicaid work rules will be expensive

Sep. 26—Georgia spent $54.2 million in less than five years to administer the country's only Medicaid program with work requirements — more than twice as much as it spent to provide health care to ...
Yahoo

Participation in Medicaid child dental care continues to decline in Georgia, audit finds

A recent report shows that the Georgia agency responsible for Medicaid has failed to adopt or follow most prior audit recommendations intended to improve dental care access for children, including ...
MM&M

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 ...
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Research & Commentary: Federal Waiver Can Save Georgia’s Medicaid Program

The continuing growth in states’ Medicaid programs has placed a severe financial strain on state budgets. In fiscal year 2024, Medicaid was the largest category of total state spending, consuming 29.8 ...

Lavonia Hospital closes labor and delivery unit, leaving rural families in crisis

St. Mary's Sacred Heart Hospital in Lavonia, Georgia, is shutting down its labor and delivery unit after Medicaid cuts and ...
Newsday

Trump extends Georgia health insurance program with work requirements, despite red tape findings

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.
Medical Xpress

Medicaid work requirements have not boosted insurance coverage or employment, study finds

The introduction of work requirements for certain adults enrolled in the US health insurance program Medicaid has so far failed to boost insurance coverage or employment rates, finds a study published ...
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Breach may have exposed some Georgia Medicaid recipients’ health information

The private health information of more than 900 Medicaid recipients in Georgia may have been exposed in July, according to a state contractor. Gainwell Technologies, the fiscal agent for Medicaid in ...