Georgia Health Care Budget Primer for State Fiscal Year 2022
Georgia’s 2022 Health Care Budget
The Departments of Community Health, Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities and Public Health are the three primary agencies focused on the state’s health care and public health systems. Georgia plans to provide $5.6 billion in total state funds for these three agencies in the 2022 budget year, or about 20 percent of overall state spending. General Fund appropriations for these agencies account for $4.9 billion, or 87 percent of total state funds, while other sources account for about $696 million. General Fund dollars for these three agencies increased by $409 million from 2021 to 2022.