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Work group recommends baseline county funding and tighter administration for Prince George's County health-insurance program
Summary
The Prince George's County work group recommended a baseline general-fund allocation (draft: $5.5 million, including $5 million for services) and asked FQHCs for site-level 2025 data to finalize an allocation methodology and administrative budget.
Anya Makarva, senior adviser to the Prince George's County Council and lead drafter of the work-group report, told the group the draft recommends a general-fund allocation of at least $5.5 million for the county’s health-insurance program, with $5,000,000 proposed for direct services and the remainder for program administration.
The recommendation aims to stabilize a program that officials say has been underfunded and inconsistently administered as responsibility moved from a nonprofit to the county health department. Makarva said the county’s nonelderly uninsured rate is 14 percent — roughly 107,200 people — well above the Maryland average of about 8 percent and representing about 27 percent of the state’s uninsured population. “We have 14…
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