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In 1997, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to cover children from families whose incomes are low but too high for Medicaid. PeachCare for Kids was founded in 1999 as Georgia's SCHIP. As of 2009, an average of 1.4 million Georgians are enrolled.
Georgia’s Department of Community Health has agreed to include coverage for gender-affirming surgeries in the state’s Medicaid program as part of a settlement with two transgender women, the ...
As the federal public health emergency declaration prompted by COVID-19 expires, Georgia has until next May to figure out who is eligible for coverage. State to ‘redetermine’ Medicaid coverage ...
Georgia has already cut more than 170,000 adults and kids from Medicaid and is expected to remove thousands more as the yearlong review of all 2.7 million Medicaid recipients in the state continues.
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The Medicaid coverage gap includes nonelderly people with incomes that are below the federal poverty line (FPL), making them ineligible for subsidized marketplace insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but have incomes higher than their state's limit for Medicaid eligibility as their state has not adopted Medicaid expansion as ...
Jason Chauncey Spencer (born November 14, 1974) is an American physician assistant and Republican politician.. Spencer was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 2010, representing district 180, and serving into July 2018.
Georgia is now the only state in the US to implement work requirements in its Medicaid program – a feat many Republican lawmakers nationwide will be closely monitoring.