Georgia among states seeing higher rate of Medicaid child disenrollments, report finds

The state of Georgia is currently redetermining eligibility requirements for Medicaid and Peach Care for Kids. Nearly 3 million people in Georgia receive Medicaid health insurance, but that number has been slowly decreasing as thousands of people are being dropped as the state reevaluates who's eligible. (Photo courtesy of Hush Naidoo Jade photography)

Roughly a year into the Medicaid “unwinding,” Georgia is among a dozen states across the United States terminating a higher proportion of children from the program than adults, according to a report from the nonprofit think tank Urban Institute.

The report analyzed monthly U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Medicaid enrollment reports through November 2023.

It found Georgia and 11 other states have so far disenrolled more than 100% of initial projections for children.