Goodman, Hickman and Watson declined comment. Summers told 11Alive News that he has heard from constituents who can be served with Medicaid expansion and is motivated to protect rural hospitals, including Crisp Regional Hospital in his hometown of Cordele.

They’ve long pushed for Medicaid expansion and gun safety measures. This session, House Minority Leader Carolyn Hugley says she has new hope. “You know, under the gold dome, a no might mean ‘not now,’ and windows are never really closed,

The legislation, Senate Bill 50, would expand access to medical coverage to Georgians making less than 138% of the federal poverty limit and would request a waiver to do so from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Democrats in the state legislature are making another attempt this session to extend health insurance to more Georgians under Medicaid coverage — and this time, four Republicans have already signed on,

A handful of Senate Republicans from rural Georgia have signed onto a new bipartisan attempt to fully expand Medicaid through a conservative-friendly option that gained traction last year after a decade of firm GOP resistance.

According to Democrats the new legislation known as the Peach Care Act of 2025 would offer insurance coverage to half a million uninsured Georgians.

ATLANTA, GA — An inpatient behavioral health system with facilities in metro Atlanta has reached a multi-million dollar, multi-state settlement over Medicare and Medicaid fraud.

Georgia will seek federal approval to extend Medicaid coverage to some low-income parents and legal guardians of children through the age of six, Gov. Brian Kemp announced Wednesday. Georgia Pathways, the limited Medicaid expansion the state launched in ...

A federal judge temporarily halted President Donald Trump’s order freezing trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans. But not before the sprawling plan had unleashed a wave of confusion — and some panic — among public and private organizations that rely on the money to fund programs aimed at everything from Meals on Wheels to solar power to cancer research.

In a contentious confirmation hearing to be the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. struggled to answer questions about how he would reform Medicaid or Medicare, the government health care programs used by millions of disabled,

Democrats in Georgia are the minority at the State Capitol. They’ve long pushed for Medicaid expansion and gun safety measures. This session, House Minority Leader Carolyn Hugley says she has new hope.

A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s proposed freeze, which could have targeted some of Georgia’s most vulnerable residents.