Three Democratic senators asked the country’s top nonpartisan government watchdog on Tuesday to investigate the costs of a Georgia program that requires some people to work to receive Medicaid coverage.
For better or — mostly — worse, Hollywood has helped shape the public's image of the health insurance industry in films ranging from John Grisham's The Rainmaker to the Oscar-winning As Good as It Gets.
Fifteen-year-old Ella Velez’s favorite gymnastics event is vault. The vault is quick, and she doesn’t have to think very much about what she’s doing unlike other, slower events like the balance beam. But for the past couple of years, Velez has had to be focused on regulating her blood sugar every time she performs gymnastics. But a longtime endocrinologist based in Columbus, Dr. Steven Leichter, helped Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown become one of the first medical facilities in the country to administer a new treatment designed to delay the onset of Type 1 diabetes.
There seems to be a fee for just about everything, from a verification fee to a convenience fee and more. And it’s not all pocket change. So, when you pay a fee, where does the money go? Well, let’s take for example, the Georgia Department of Community Health.
It's Jobs Friday and the jobs report is in! There's more jobs! ... but not as many as expected. And there's a teensy bit more unemployment and slower wage growth. But there's an upside ... Plus, healthcare is growing like gangbusters and how immigrants affect American-born workers.
The governor signed into law a high-profile health care measure Friday that is seen as a potential pathway to passing full Medicaid expansion next year — but not before casting fresh doubts on whether another year will change his mind.
A late proposal to fully expand Medicaid received a surprise hearing in a Senate committee Thursday but was narrowly defeated, with the chairman who allowed the hearing casting the decisive vote to shelve it.
Cyberattacks are plaguing the healthcare industry. It's an expensive and dangerous trend that's on the rise. Today, we consider why hacking is surging right now, why healthcare companies are being targeted and what hackers want from them.
The lawsuit suggests that Pathways to Coverage should get a pass to operate longer than its intended end date next September. But an error in Georgia’s approach makes that complicated.
Georgia will join about half of all states that already have an all-payer claims database, or an APCD, by January. The database and visualizations to come were developed with support from the Georgia Tech Research Institute.
The Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis Commission unanimously granted provisional licenses to four more companies to produce low-THC oil to help Georgians with a list of severe ailments.
Thousands of Georgians were once confined to the world’s largest mental institution, authorized by the state in 1837 as the “Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum.”
