Gov. Brian Kemp signed a package of health care bills Friday

Workers supporting people with disabilities will get a salary boost later this year, as Georgia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities moves forward with recommendations from a long awaited statewide rate study it completed last year. 

Researchers say 42% of children in Georgia pay out of network for behavioral health care. That’s according to a new report from the research institute RTI International.

Gov. Brian Kemp signed a package of health care bills Friday, including the most significant reforms in decades to Georgia’s law governing hospital construction and new medical services.