Community Health, Department of; utilize appropriations for purposes of obtaining federal financial participation for medical assistance payments; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to medical assistance generally, so as authorize the Department of Community Health to utilize appropriations for the purposes of obtaining federal financial participation for medical assistance payments to providers and for funding Medicaid expansion; to direct the department to use such funding and any available federal medical assistance payments to increase the income threshold for Medicaid eligibility up to a maximum of 138 percent of the federal poverty level; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.