Georgia Sues to Restore Full Term for Medicaid Expansion Project

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) is taking the Biden administration to court in a bid to win back three years of a Medicaid expansion program the state says was arbitrarily cut short by a federal agency.

In a complaint filed Friday in US District Court for the the Southern District of Georgia, attorneys for the state allege the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services denied Georgia’s request to restore the full five-year term of its previously denied “Georgia Pathways” Medicaid expansion demonstration after a federal judge ruled that the agency had to reinstate the program.

Court documents state that in ...