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Andy Miller

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Andy Miller, Senior Editor, has been a health care journalist for 29 years. Miller graduated from Duke in 1973 and received a master’s in education from Duke in 1979. He was a social studies teacher and basketball coach before switching careers to journalism. He entered the master’s in journalism program at University of North Carolina in 1984. He was hired by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he had editing and reporting positions before switching to health care in 1992. He covered that beat until 2009, when he retired. He launched Georgia Health News in 2010, where he continued as editor and CEO until Georgia Health News joined KFF Health News.

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Democratic senators ask watchdog agency to investigate Georgia’s Medicaid work rule

Three Democratic senators asked the country’s top nonpartisan government watchdog on Tuesday to investigate the costs of a Georgia program that requires some people to work to receive Medicaid coverage.

December 19, 2024
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By:
  • Andy Miller ,
  • Renuka Rayasam ,
  • and 1 more
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, left, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma, right, sign healthcare waivers at the state Capitol in Atlanta, Oct. 15, 2020. Pathways to Coverage launched last July and is the only Medicaid plan in the country that requires beneficiaries to work or engage in other activities to get coverage. As of June, it had about 4,300 members.

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Georgia’s work requirement slows processing of applications for Medicaid, food stamps

Georgia’s public benefits system has been plagued by problems for years. But processing times have worsened since July 2023, when Georgia launched the nation’s only active Medicaid work requirement program.

December 06, 2024
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  • Andy Miller ,
  • Renuka Rayasam ,
  • and 1 more
Three residents of Haven Hotel in Stone Mountain, Georgia, hold rolls of toilet paper given to them by community volunteers. The hotel charges residents $1 per roll, they say.

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Extended-stay hotels, a growing option for poor families, can lead to health problems for kids

Extended-stay hotels are often a last resort for low-income families trying to avoid homelessness. But hotel living can lead to — or exacerbate — various physical and mental health issues for children, say advocates for families and researchers who study homelessness.

October 12, 2024
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  • Andy Miller and
  • Renuka Rayasam
Community members and students gather around a flagpole on the Apalachee High School campus near Winder, Georgia, on Sept. 8, leaving flowers and messages to memorialize the four people killed in the Sept. 4 shooting there.

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‘What happens three months from now?’ Mental health after Georgia high school shooting

The recent shooting at Apalachee High School outside of Atlanta caused more than physical wounds. Medical experts worry a lack of mental health resources in the community — and in Georgia as a whole — means few options for those trying to cope with trauma from the shooting.

September 13, 2024
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  • Sam Whitehead ,
  • Renuka Rayasam ,
  • and 1 more
Atlanta Medical Center closed in 2022, creating a hole in the city’s medical infrastructure. This year, lawmakers created an exception in state regulations that could pave the way for a new hospital near the former AMC campus.

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Bipartisan effort paves way for reviving shuttered hospitals in Georgia

“Certificate of need” laws, largely supported by the hospital industry, limit health facility construction in 35 states and Washington, D.C. Georgia lawmakers decided its law was complicating the reviving of two hospitals critical to their communities.

August 21, 2024
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  • Sam Whitehead
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