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Health Advocacy Groups Urge PA to Improve Staffing at Assistance Offices Before Major Medicaid Changes Begin

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Big changes will be coming to Pennsylvania’s Medicaid program, starting April first. A coalition of health advocacy organizations is calling on the state to make sure it has enough staff to handle the paperwork. WESA’s Kate Giammarise has more.

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(Original air-date: 3/9/23)

Kate Giammarise focuses her reporting on poverty, social services and affordable housing. Before joining WESA, she covered those topics for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for nearly five years; prior to that, she spent several years in the paper’s Harrisburg bureau covering the legislature, governor and state government. She was part of the P-G staff that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting on the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.