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Georgia lawmakers’ proposed budget includes a provision calling on DHS to submit a plan to address the backlog of eligibility ...
Kemp is one of 22 GOP governors backing the U.S. Senate's budget proposal. It includes a plan that some worry could cause cuts to Medicaid spending.
Republicans are aiming for major reductions in federal spending, and Medicaid seems a likely target. But the politics of ...
Boxed into a vote on outlawing spending on gender affirming care for transgender prisoners, Georgia Democrats chose a third ...
There’s been no published list of what grants are getting cut, but there is evidence that since the end of the public health emergency, these grants were used to support work outside of COVID testing/ ...
Medicaid is the federal- and state-funded insurance program covering about 2 million low-income people in Georgia. They are mostly children, along with some low-income adults such as elderly in ...
The Department of Health and Human Services serves millions of Georgians in need, but recent downsizing and budget cuts could ...
Lt. Gov. Burt Jones gaveled the Senate’s session to a close a little after 9 p.m., which shocked many observers — and ...
Walgreen will pay more than $2.85 million to settle whistleblower allegations that the pharmacy overbilled Medicaid programs ...
Investigators with the Vermont Secretary of State’s Office of Professional Regulation (OPR) discovered Ms. Laws’ actual identity in April 2023 and referred the case to the Attorney General’s Medicaid ...
The settlement alleges Walgreen Co. inflated prices for generic medications to Georgia and Massachusetts Medicaid programs. Both the Georgia and Massachusetts Medicaid programs are jointly funded ...
Georgia opted not to expand Medicaid when Obamacare was enacted in 2010. Had it expanded Medicaid coverage, residents with an income up to 138% of the federal poverty level would have access to ...