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Medicaid expansion pushed
More than 40 advocacy oranizations, healthcare providers and others have formed a new coalition called “Cover Georgia” that will push the state to expand its Medicaid program, as called for under the federal health care law. Gov. Nathan Deal has said the state can’t afford the law’s provision to expand ...
Businesses come face-to-face with health care law
The realities of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are finally hitting businesses across Georgia. With the presidential election insuring that the law isn’t going away, business executives who had remained in “wait and see’ mode until November have rushed to seminars and called their consultants, insurance brokers and ...
Hospital systems to form their own insurance company
Piedmont and WellStar, two of Atlanta’s largest hospital systems, said Monday they are forming an insurance company — a bold move in a rapidly changing health care marketplace. By elbowing their way into the domain of Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna and United Healthcare, the hospital systems could dramatically increase ...
State turns attention to juvenile justice reforms
A special state council today will recommend repairs for a juvenile justice system that spends $91,000 a year for each bed in its state detention centers. Council members point to the enormous expense of incarcerating young offenders in a state “youth development campus,” or YDC, while producing poor results, as ...
Suits allege wrongful baby deaths at South Fulton hospital
Just over a two-month period this summer, negligent medical care caused the deaths of three babies either shortly before or after they were delivered at South Fulton Medical Center, a series of recently filed lawsuits allege. The suits assert that physicians and other health-care providers failed to recognize the signs ...
‘Bed tax’ a windfall for some hospitals, a big loser for others
Piedmont Healthcare and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta — two of Georgia’s hospital power players – have been battling this fall over a law that taxes them and every healthcare system in the state. The two are at odds over the state’s “bed tax” — a fee that Georgia hospitals pay ...
Piedmont, WellStar announce partnership
Piedmont Healthcare and WellStar Health System, two of Atlanta’s largest hospital systems, announced Monday the creation of a new partnership designed to help both systems stay strong as health care evolves. The new Georgia Health Collaborative is not a merger of the two competing systems, executives said. Instead, it’s an ...
Georgia doctor shortage will change who provides health care
Going to a doctor’s office in Georgia will increasingly be an experience that doesn’t actually involve seeing a doctor. Within just a few years, an emerging doctor shortage in Georgia is expected to be so critical that the only way to provide health care to the state’s growing and aging ...
More Georgia doctors limit Medicare as senior population swells
When Joan Murphy turned 65 this year and joined Medicare, she found out that some doctors didn’t love her as much as they used to. An orthopedic specialist she had been referred to for a back problem sent her elsewhere: He doesn’t take Medicare. That already had her worried when ...
Georgia faces major doctor shortage
Georgia is facing a critical doctor shortage, as a generation of physicians prepares to retire just as aging baby boomers and the federal health care law create a surge in demand for medical care. Knowing a shortage was coming, the state’s medical schools have boosted enrollments by 50 percent over ...
Emory to manage Southern Regional
Emory Healthcare will take over management of Southern Regional Health System next month, under an agreement announced Monday. The system includes Southern Regional Medical Center, a 331-bed hospital in Riverdale. While Emory will take over management of Southern Regional, ownership of the hospital will not change. “Our community expects the ...
Deal’s Medicaid decision could put hospitals at risk
Gov. Nathan Deal’s decision to reject the expansion of Medicaid prescribed by the Affordable Care Act would leave thousands of the poorest Georgians uninsured and threaten the bottom lines of hospitals that were counting on new income from the changes. Deal’s spokesman noted Wednesday that the governor might agree to ...
Medicaid: Flood of funds awaits OK in Georgia
Gov. Nathan Deal is facing a $40 billion dilemma. The federal health care law would inject that gigantic sum into Georgia’s health care economy over 10 years by adding more than 650,000 low-income Georgians to the Medicaid program. Deal, a strong opponent of the law, is wary of the proposition. ...
Medicaid: Projection at issue
Budget gurus and health officials in every state are trying to project the costs and benefits of the Affordable Care Act.Georgia is no exception. As state officials try to decide whether Georgia will agree to expand its Medicaid program, putting a price tag on that decision has been the first ...
Emory's Winship renews cancer center designation
Emory University's Winship Cancer Institute has successfully renewed its National Cancer Institute cancer center designation status.Only 57 centers nationwide that provide care to adult cancer patients hold the NCI cancer center designation. Winship is the only NCI-designated cancer center in Georgia. Winship will get nearly $8 million in funding from ...
Corrections chief: Decriminalize mental illness
One of every six inmates in state prisons is mentally ill, and the man who locks them up says that's too many."I think it's about time to decriminalize mental illness," said Georgia Corrections Commissioner Brian Owens.Owens, adding his voice to those calling for sweeping reform in the state's criminal justice ...
Georgia health care in limbo
Georgia hospitals were depending on the health care law to ease the burden of treating hundreds of thousands of uninsured patients each year for free. But that relief may never come. While upholding the law, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled states could reject the massive expansion of the Medicaid program ...
Covering the health care law’s guarantee
The nation’s insurance companies will soon have to offer health plans to people like Daniel Gennari and Amy Swann — potential customers they would not have considered before.The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last week to uphold the health care law means that in 2014, insurers can’t consider the fact that ...
Tough health care choices await Georgia businesses
The Supreme Court decision to uphold the health care law sent almost every business in the state — from Fortune 500 companies to mom-and-pop dry cleaners — scrambling last week to understand how the law might reshape their operations. Many Georgia business owners dread the law and worry that higher ...
Fieldale's health care strategy paying off
Fieldale Farms did not wait for a Supreme Court decision to craft a new approach to its employee health plan.The north Georgia poultry company, with 4,500 employees, decided years ago to see whether it could save money by helping workers stay healthy and by offering them a Fieldale-only primary-care clinic ...
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