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...
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...
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The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) recommends that all children enrolled in Medicaid receive blood lead tests at age one and two or anytime between ages three and six if no record of previous testing exists37. Furthermore, the most recent guidelines state that DPH is focused on sc...
This included type of health insurance (uninsured, private, Medicaid, and Medicare), age at diagnosis (<40, 40–49, 50–65, >65 years of age), urban/rural residence, area-based residential socioeconomic status (SES) index based on the percent of the census tract population below the ...
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 people. ...