State Moves Decision Timeline on Medicaid Redesign

The State’s Department of Community Health has pushed back the timeline for a decision on the redesign of the state’s Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program.

The state was originally supposed to announce its redesign decision in April. But Georgia Department of Community Health Commissioner David Cook says the state now expects to unveil its plans sometime this summer. He says the timeline change is mainly due to the large amount of stakeholder input the department received after the release of a consultant’s report. The report’s recommendations include an expanded managed care system for Medicaid.

“We got some very a robust response and frankly some very serious and interesting ideas that we wanted to flesh out.”