Georgia Medicaid Program Receives Financial Bandaid: Provider Fee Bill Signed

Deal Signs Hospital 'Bed Tax' Bill, But Health Care Woes Persist by Greg Bluestein and Misty Williams.  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  February 13, 2013.

Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed a bill that would avert an approximately $700 million hole in the state's Medicaid program, possibly also averting some hospital closures. There are still significant funding gaps in the Medicaid program with more problems to come.  As a result of the state's decision not expand Medicaid with funding as provided by the ACA, hospitals such as Grady may suffer losses of federal funding of up to $45 million dollars.