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Warner Robins woman charged with defrauding Georgia Medicaid program for more than $5.4 million
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr’s Office announced Monday that a 62-year-old woman from Warner Robins was charged with ...
Congress Is Pushing for a Medicaid Work Requirement. Here’s What Happened When Georgia Tried It.
GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Yet Georgia’s example shows ...
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What Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement tells us about costs of Trump's ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
Congressional Republicans are seeking to mandate that millions of Americans work in order to receive federally subsidized ...
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Warner Robins woman indicted for defrauding Medicaid for $5 million, DOJ says
The woman submitted more than 77,000 false claims for medical equipment that was never dispensed, from June 2014 until ...
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Recent Experience Shows National Medicaid Work Requirements Would Create Enormous Administrative Inefficiencies
The US health care system is already larded with bureaucracy; administrative costs account for nearly a third of total health ...
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What’s in the ‘big, beautiful bills’ and how do they impact Georgia?
The U.S. Senate-passed version of the reconciliation bill includes some key changes to the package approved by the House in May.
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ProPublica: Congress Is Pushing for a Medicaid Work Requirement. Here’s What Happened When Georgia Tried It.
GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Yet Georgia’s example shows ...
Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff criticizes passage of 'Big Beautiful Bill,' warns of financial disaster
The Georgia Democrat spoke Tuesday after the U.S. Senate passed President Donald Trump's signature budget legislation.
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Georgia’s experience raises red flags for Medicaid work requirement moving through Congress
A tax and spending bill backed by President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers that passed the U.S. House in May would require many able-bodied Medicaid enrollees under 65 to show that they work, ...
Warner Robins woman files 77,000 false claims to Medicaid, raking in nearly $5.4 million, DOJ says
Prosecutors say the woman, 62-year-old Elizabeth Sue Ivester, is accused of filing 77,095 false Medicaid claims.