The author explores the impact of financial cutbacks in Georgia's Medicaid regulations on poor children and children with disabilities. It is asserted that the modified regulations, fully in place on September 1, 2006, require increased documentation from speech-language pathologists and have resulted...
Brian Kemp Monday defended and doubled down on his signature Medicaid program — the only one in the nation with a work requirement — further dimming chances the state could adopt a broader expansion of the taxpayer-funded low-income health plan without a work ma...
Some researchers have focused on building regression models to predict BLLs based on demographic characteristics, such as race, age, Medicaid coverage, and income5,22,26. Other targeting methods stress the use of geographic information systems (GIS) to create maps highlighting areas with high ...
Overall, NHB women were more likely to present with a grade 3 breast cancer diagnosis, receive chemotherapy, be under 40 years of age, and have Medicaid health insurance at diagnosis (Table 1).30 NHB women were also less likely to receive a low-risk ODX RS (52% vs. 58%) and more li...
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's plan for a conservative alternative to Obamacare's Medicaid expansion has cost taxpayers at least $26 million so far, with more than 90% going toward administrative and consulting costs rather than medical care for low-income pe
Republican leaders in several states have sought to require that people who are eligible for Medicaid through expansion work, arguing the health program for low-income Americans shouldn't be a handout. Kemp's experiment, aimed at single adults with low incomes who aren't already eligible for Me...