After 11 years, Georgia Health News joined KFF Health News. Together we are telling the important health care stories about Georgia from across the state. Learn more from Andy Miller. If you are ...

It has been acclaimed as a national model for other states. Last year’s settlement agreement between Georgia and federal officials over improving the care of people with mental illnesses and ...

Lanetra Tucker used to live in an apartment just a block away from Crawford W. Long Middle School. Most days, her children made the short walk to and from the campus in south Atlanta, in the shadow of ...

This article was produced through a partnership between Georgia Health News and HuffPost. It was written by HuffPost reporter Lauren Weber and GHN editor and CEO Andy Miller. GLENWOOD ― If you want to ...

A health care staffing company with strong political connections has been paid more than $40 million by the state of Georgia to supply medical workers to fight COVID-19. Rick Jackson Jackson ...

Editor’s note: This article is reprinted with permission of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. WebMD and Georgia Health News broke the story in July 2019 of the potential dangers of cancer-causing ...

In every corner of Latasha Taylor’s home are plants she knows nothing about. After years spent shirking her mother’s calls to join her in the yard at sunrise, Taylor now waters them out of duty. When ...

Georgia’s insurance commissioner is warning consumers of the potential financial risks of joining a Health Care Sharing Ministries program as an alternative to regular insurance. In these ...

The merger of insurers Centene and WellCare will create a company with a dominant position in Georgia’s managed care market for Medicaid. The $17 billion deal, which closed Thursday, will give the ...

The director of Georgia Medicaid has left that position, state officials said Tuesday. Linda Wiant’s departure as Medicaid chief appeared to come suddenly, since she had attended Thursday’s Department ...

The Grady Health Foundation announced Wednesday that a giant biopharmaceutical company is donating $2 million to help renovate the Grady system’s HIV/AIDS center in Atlanta. Haupert The Grady Ponce de ...

When his 5-year-old son suffered a burn injury, Michael Caraway took him to a local hospital emergency room. The hospital was in Caraway’s insurance network. His son got successful treatment and went ...