Increased Medicaid payments could give hospitals much-needed boost

The state agency in charge of Medicaid wants to take advantage of an enrollment slowdown to increase payments to doctors and hospitals.

Years of low reimbursements have left many providers of health care to Medicaid and PeachCare patients in the red.

Trauma care hospitals have suffered the most. Atlanta's Grady hospital has partially attributed its financial crisis to this situation.

In recognition, the Department of Community Health plans to reimburse them at a higher rate than other hospitals.