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Toddlers play with paint at the Child Development Center.

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  • Children's Health

STUDY: Are the kids all right? Recent survey asked Georgia parents

An inaugural report out of Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health aims to understand the challenges facing today’s kids.

May 07, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
A splitscreen image of Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.

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  • Health

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
In the 2002 medical thriller <em>John Q, </em>Denzel Washington and Kimberly Elise play parents who learn that their 9-year-old son's heart transplant won't be covered by insurance.

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  • Movies

In the movies, villainous health insurers have been a chronic condition

For better or — mostly — worse, Hollywood has helped shape the public's image of the health insurance industry in films ranging from John Grisham's The Rainmaker to the Oscar-winning As Good as It Gets.

December 13, 2024
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By:
  • Bob Mondello
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  • News

GPB evening headlines for August 19, 2022

A report from an organization that advocates for equity in health care ranks Georgia among the worst states for women’s health.

John Lewis statue in Decatur to be unveiled Saturday.

Terrapin Brewing Company is being sold.

August 19, 2024
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By:
  • GPB News Radio
Ella Velez, center, speaks during a Thursday afternoon press conference at Piedmont Columbus Regional Hospital in Columbus, Georgia. With her are her mother, Lorna Velez, brother Alex Velez, and father Luis Velez.

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  • Health

A 15-year-old Columbus gymnast is one of first in world to receive new diabetes treatment

Fifteen-year-old Ella Velez’s favorite gymnastics event is vault. The vault is quick, and she doesn’t have to think very much about what she’s doing unlike other, slower events like the balance beam. But for the past couple of years, Velez has had to be focused on regulating her blood sugar every time she performs gymnastics. But a longtime endocrinologist based in Columbus, Dr. Steven Leichter, helped Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown become one of the first medical facilities in the country to administer a new treatment designed to delay the onset of Type 1 diabetes.

May 28, 2024
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By:
  • Brittany McGee
(Photo Courtesy of Ian Britton via FreeFoto.com.)

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  • News

How much does the GA Department of Community Health make in fees? See 2023’s totals

There seems to be a fee for just about everything, from a verification fee to a convenience fee and more. And it’s not all pocket change. So, when you pay a fee, where does the money go? Well, let’s take for example, the Georgia Department of Community Health.

May 24, 2024
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By:
  • Chelsea Madden
A medical respite room in Macon's new Central City Apartments.

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  • Economy

New Macon apartments to offer affordability and medical respite for the unhoused

Macon's Central City Apartments will offer below-market rate rents to service workers and safe space for medical recovery for the unhoused.

May 21, 2024
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship

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  • Economy

Not too hot, not too cold: a 'Goldilocks' jobs report

It's Jobs Friday and the jobs report is in! There's more jobs! ... but not as many as expected. And there's a teensy bit more unemployment and slower wage growth. But there's an upside ... Plus, healthcare is growing like gangbusters and how immigrants affect American-born workers.

May 03, 2024
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By:
  • Angel Carreras,
  • Darian Woods,
  • and 3 more
Gov. Brian Kemp

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  • Politics

Kemp signs bill to ease limit on new health care facilities, restates opposition to Medicaid expansion

The governor signed into law a high-profile health care measure Friday that is seen as a potential pathway to passing full Medicaid expansion next year — but not before casting fresh doubts on whether another year will change his mind.  

April 22, 2024
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By:
  • Jill Nolin
Sen. Bill Cowsert (center) cast the decisive vote Thursday to keep a Medicaid expansion proposal from advancing out of his committee. Cordele Republican Sen. Carden Summers (left) was one of two Republican senators who voted for the bill.

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  • Health Care

Medicaid expansion chances dim again this year as key health care proposal passes without it

A late proposal to fully expand Medicaid received a surprise hearing in a Senate committee Thursday but was narrowly defeated, with the chairman who allowed the hearing casting the decisive vote to shelve it.

March 22, 2024
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By:
  • Jill Nolin
As of February 7, 2024, the hospital's computer network had been offline for eight days following what appears to be a ransomware attack

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  • Economy

Are data breaches putting patients at risk?

Cyberattacks are plaguing the healthcare industry. It's an expensive and dangerous trend that's on the rise. Today, we consider why hacking is surging right now, why healthcare companies are being targeted and what hackers want from them.

Related episodes:
Cracking the code on cyber insurance
One hack to fool them all (Apple Podcasts / Spotify)
How to launder $600 million on the internet (Apple Podcasts / Spotify)

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March 13, 2024
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By:
  • Paddy Hirsch,
  • Wailin Wong,
  • and 2 more
Gov. Brian Kemp with doctors from the Medical Center at Atrium Health in Macon in 2020.

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  • Health Care

Lawsuit over Kemp’s Medicaid program enters uncharted legal waters

The lawsuit suggests that Pathways to Coverage should get a pass to operate longer than its intended end date next September. But an error in Georgia’s approach makes that complicated.

February 06, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
State Rep. Park Cannon

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  • News

State House Democrats hold hearing on pregnancy-related deaths

House Democrats in Georgia held a hearing Thursday to discuss maternal mortality in the state. 

January 05, 2024
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
In this Oct. 7, 2016 photo, a nurse provides assistance to the surgical staff at the Dr. Isaac Gonzalez Mart

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  • Health

Public insurance claim database will give a better look at health care access in Georgia

Georgia will join about half of all states that already have an all-payer claims database, or an APCD, by January. The database and visualizations to come were developed with support from the Georgia Tech Research Institute.

December 14, 2023
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Cannabis Plant

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  • News

More Georgia locations to offer medical cannabis after commission awards more licenses to producers

The Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis Commission unanimously granted provisional licenses to four more companies to produce low-THC oil to help Georgians with a list of severe ailments.

November 16, 2023
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By:
  • Ross Williams
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