Georgia
Ranking Highlights
| 2019 Rank | Change from Baseline | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall Ranking | 42 | -3 |
| Access and Affordability | 46 | -4 |
| Prevention and Treatment | 40 | -2 |
| Avoidable Hospital Use and Cost | 32 | 0 |
| Healthy Lives | 37 | -3 |
| Disparity | 43 | +2 |
| Medicaid Expansion | No |
Demographics
| Georgia | Average | |
|---|---|---|
| Total Population | 10,246,239 | 320,842,721 |
| Median Household Income | $60,671 | $65,727 |
| Below 200% of Federal Poverty Level (FPL) | 35% | 31% |
| % White Race, Non-Hispanic | 53% | 61% |
| % Black Race, Non-Hispanic | 31% | 12% |
| % Other Race, Non-Hispanic | 7% | 9% |
| % Hispanic Ethnicithy | 10% | 18% |
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Highlights
Top Ranked Indicators
- Adults with inappropriate lower back imaging
- Children without all recommended vaccines
- Home health patients without improved mobility
Bottom Ranked Indicators
- Adults who went without care because of cost
- Uninsured adults
- Central line-associated blood stream infection (CLABSI)
Most Improved Indicators
- Home health patients without improved mobility
- Diabetic adults without an annual hemoglobin A1c test
- Uninsured adults
Indicators That Worsened the Most
- Hospital 30-day mortality
- Adults without all recommended cancer screenings
- Preventable hospitalizations ages 18-64
Comparison with the U.S. Average
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Estimated Gains Georgia Could Expect if Performance Improves to Match Top States
| Top State in the U.S. | Top State in the Southeast region | Gains for Georgia |
|---|---|---|
| 1,102,932 | 860,809 | more adults and children, beyond those who already gained coverage through the ACA, would be insured |
| 695,811 | 386,562 | fewer adults would skip needed care because of its cost |
| 473,289 | 283,973 | more adults would receive age- and gender-appropriate cancer screenings |
| 15,312 | 1,914 | more children (ages 19-35 months) would receive all recommended vaccines |
| 261,590 | 92,892 | fewer employer-insured adults and elderly Medicare beneficiaries would seek care in emergency departments for nonemergent or primary-care-treatable conditions |
| 4,833 | 2,307 | fewer premature deaths (before age 75) would occur from causes that are potentially treatable or preventable with timely and appropriate care |
Estimated impact if this state’s performance improved to the rate of two benchmark levels — a national benchmark set at the level of the best-performing state and a regional benchmark set at the level of the top-performing state in region (www.bea.gov: Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, New England, Plains, Rocky Mountains, Southeast, Southwest, West). Benchmark states have an estimated impact of zero (0).
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