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GPB Morning Headlines for April 22, 2024
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Workers supporting people with disabilities will get a salary boost later this year, as Georgia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities moves forward with recommendations from a long awaited statewide rate study it completed last year.
Researchers say 42% of children in Georgia pay out of network for behavioral health care. That’s according to a new report from the research institute RTI International.
Gov. Brian Kemp signed a package of health care bills Friday, including the most significant reforms in decades to Georgia’s law governing hospital construction and new medical services.
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