More than a half million people lose health coverage during Georgia's Medicaid 'unwinding'

Georgia has so far dropped hundreds of thousands of people from Medicaid, mostly for administrative reasons such as problems with renewal application paperwork.

The cutoffs are stacking up as the state continues reevaluating everyone’s Medicaid eligibility with coverage after the end of federal COVID-19 public health emergency rules last spring. The nationwide process is known as “Medicaid redetermination” or “Medicaid unwinding.”

The pandemic emergency rules had prevented states from terminating anyone from their Medicaid rolls.