Story Behind the Story: Gov. Scott's Medicaid Estimates
Health News Florida’s story on Gov. Rick Scott’s Medicaid cost estimates generated a huge buzz this week online and in publications around the country.On Thursday, WUSF aired a conversation between...
View ArticleImmigration Issues Take Center Stage
While U.S. Sen.Marco Rubio and other Florida lawmakers tout their support for an overhaul of immigration policies, a showdown over emergency room care for illegal immigrants continues in Florida.
View ArticleDisabled From Abuse, Boy Abandoned in Nursing Home
Miami Herald reporter Carol Marbin Miller explains the sad and complex situation faced by disabled children in institutions through the story of Anubis Day, who was left blind and on a ventilator after...
View ArticleAHCA Offers Webinar on Navigating Health Website
The state Agency for Healthcare Administration is now offering live webinars to show people how to navigate the FloridaHealthFinder.gov website. The webinars will feature a live tour of the website,...
View ArticleAHCA: Setting the Record Straight
The Florida Agency For Health Care Administration says the Miami Herald got its facts wrong in an editorial on medically needy children and nursing homes. Health News Florida linked to the editorial.
View ArticleUnited Drops 300 Doctors; Layoffs Hit WellCare
UnitedHealthcare is triggering a furor in southwest Florida by dropping 300 physicians from its AARP/Medicare Complete HMO network, according to the Fort Myers News-Press.
View ArticleFL Adds Medicaid Managed Care Contracts
A report from analyst firm Stifel says Florida has added four more Medicaid managed care contracts in addition to the two insurers, Centene and WellCare, that were awarded contracts in September. In...
View ArticleWellCare Wins New Medicaid Contract
WellCare Health Plans is forecast to remain No. 1 in Florida Medicaid managed care enrollment next year after winning a challenge to a state contracting decision affecting patients in northeast...
View ArticleFL Blue's Ties to 'Prestige' Contested
A South Florida company that unsuccessfully bid for Medicaid managed care contracts is questioning how a company with financial ties to Florida Blue ended up with contracts in eight of the 11 regions,...
View ArticleFlorida Matters: Planning for Long-Term Care
Baby boomers have seen it coming for quite some time -- retirement, senior living and senior survival. Experts say most of us begin planning too late for the help we might need
View ArticleMedicaid 'Reform' Pays Off: Study
Florida’s Medicaid 'reform' project, which required all beneficiaries in five counties to enroll in managed care, succeeded in curbing health inflation just as state officials had hoped, a new study...
View ArticleBill Aims to Close Cash Clinic Loophole
Cash-only medical clinics are allowed to skirt the licensing and regulation most other clinics are subject to, a loophole that a Florida lawmaker contends allows some of them to dispense drugs...
View ArticleHouse Casts Eye on Agencies
The top House health care budget writer may try to privatize the Agency for Health Care Administration’s legal staff, the Scripps Howard/Tampa Tribune Capitol Bureau reports.
View ArticleHouse: Lift Nursing Home Bed Cap
The Florida House unanimously approved a bill Thursday that would allow more nursing home beds. The bill (HB 287) comes as a moratorium on adding nursing home beds was set to expire, the News Service...
View ArticleVA Hospital Bars State Inspectors
Two surveyors from the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration were denied access to records and escorted out of the VA Medical Center in Riviera Beach on Thursday when they tried to inspect it,...
View ArticleAnother VA Hospital Blocks Inspectors
Inspectors with the Agency for Health Care Administration have been turned away from yet another VA medical facility, the Tampa Tribune reports. They’re trying to investigate reports of injuries at VA...
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Gov. Scott vs. VA Over Patient Records
State health care regulators showed up unannounced for a third time at a federal Veterans Administration Hospital in Florida and asked to view patient records.That visit to James A. Haley VA Hospital...
View ArticleMedicaid Patients Forced to Move
A Bradenton nursing home has been suspended from Florida’s Medicaid program on charges of fraud, forcing the home's Medicaid patients to be moved on Friday.
View ArticleBumpy Start to Medicaid Managed Care
It’s May 1, and a host of counties are now part of a new Florida Medicaid program that includes almost all recipients. That has led to a lot of confusion, starting with transportation.
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