{"id":7263,"date":"2017-06-29T10:45:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T14:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7263"},"modified":"2017-06-29T10:45:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T14:45:47","slug":"removing-ineligible-family-members-from-the-state-health-benefit-plan-could-save-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7263","title":{"rendered":"Removing Ineligible Family Members from the State Health Benefit Plan Could Save Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The state of Georgia\u2019s Department of Community Health, which administers Medicaid as well as the State Health Benefit Plan for teachers, state employees, retirees and their dependents, is hoping to save up to $56 million a year by removing ineligible family members of those enrolled in the State Health Benefit plan from the program. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myajc.com\/news\/state--regional-govt--politics\/georgia-saves-million-booting-ineligibles-from-health-plan\/o8zKKBD4Ph2sSoRhgn6I8K\/\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of Georgia\u2019s Department of Community Health, which administers Medicaid as well as the State Health Benefit Plan for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7264,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263\/revisions\/7264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}