Georgia Medicaid program with work requirement off to slow start even as thousands lose coverage

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August 20th, 2023

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, left, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma sign healthcare waivers at the state Capitol in Atlanta, Oct. 15, 2020. Public health advocates say Georgia appears to be doing little to promote its new Medicaid plan or enroll people in it. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy, File)

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed paperwork creating a new state health plan for low-income residents to much fanfare at the state Capitol three years ago.

But public health experts and advocates say since it launched on July 1, state officials appear to be doing little to promote or enroll people in the nation’s only Medicaid program that makes recipients meet a work requirement.

The Georgia Department of Community Health, which has projected up to 100,000 people could eventually benefit from Georgia Pathways to Coverage, had approved just 265 applications by early August.

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