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Rick Scott healthcare commission launches a ‘transparency’ tour aimed at hospitals that won’t fork over financial data

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A blue-ribbon panel created to examine taxpayer-funded healthcare costs will hit the road meeting in Tampa, Jacksonville and Miami in the next two months, inviting the lowest and highest performing facilities in the region to address the panel. The Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding meets in Tallahassee on June 4 but will kick off its “Spotlight Transparency Tour” in Tampa on June 17. It will meet in Jacksonville sometime the week of June 29 and will meet in Miami…

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University athletic association protected under sovereign immunity Supreme Court rules

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The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the University of Central Florida’s Athletic Association has sovereign immunity and the parents of a deceased football player need to file a claims bill if they are to collect on a $10 million jury verdict. The unanimous ruling in Enock Plancher v. UCF Athletics Association affirms in part a decision from the Fifth District Court of Appeal that overturned a trial court ruling that the direct support organization did not have sovereign immunity. A jury subsequently…

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House leadership takes anti-Medicaid message to the Internet

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As the lawmakers prepare to return to Tallahassee for a budget and healthcare special session, House leadership has prepared a 60-second Internet ad warning viewers that the same lobbyists and corporate hospital executives that “pushed Obamacare through Congress” want to expand Medicaid in Florida. The simple, animated video features reds and blues, playing off colors in the Obamacare logo. It’s paid for by Florida Roundtable, a political committee for House Budget Chairman state Rep. Richard Corcoran. Corcoran is a leading…

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Another healthcare budget headache for Florida?

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Amid an ongoing dust-up over Florida’s healthcare spending, there are troubling signs that one of the reforms touted by Gov. Rick Scott may not be saving taxpayers money as initially promised. Scott signed into law in 2011 a measure that shifted Florida’s 3 million plus Medicaid patients into managed care. Scott praised the move and lobbied the federal government to grant approval for the shift. But now with the overhaul complete, HMOs have been pressing the Florida Legislature for rate…

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Amid budget tug o’ war Rick Scott pushes new hospital funding proposal with no general revenue

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Days after being advised that it could tentatively expect $1 billion in supplemental Medicaid funds, the administration of Gov. Rick Scott pushed for more than double that. Deputy Secretary for Medicaid Justin Senior sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services Director Victoria Wachino to use $1 billion in local funds to match federal dollars to drive up hospital rates by $2.27 billion, all funded with so-called Low Income Pool funds. Senior said the fund would be put into increasing Medicaid…

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Rick Scott’s healthcare commission narrows its focus to Medicaid, hospitals only

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What started out as a review of “taxpayer-funded” healthcare commission has been, so far, limited to Medicaid only. And apparently, hospitals only, even though the executive order creating the blue ribbon panel mentions insurance companies, managed-care plans and healthcare providers. The Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding held its second meeting in Orlando on Tuesday and continued to focus only on hospitals and has not discussed the role that insurance companies or managed-care plans–some of which also received Medicaid dollars–play…

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Florida managed care executive Tammy Meyerson dies

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Tamara Fox Meyerson, president and chief executive officer of the South Florida-based Preferred Medical Plan, died on Friday. She was 45. “It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Mrs. Tamara Fox Meyerson,” the health plan noted on its website. “Tammy was our leader, our colleague, and our friend. Her family and all of us who worked with her over her decades of service to Preferred Medical Plan and the South Florida community miss her dearly. Her…

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