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Senate Prez Andy Gardiner releases special session schedule: health care first, budget second

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There’s more than a week to go before the start of the 2015 special session but planning details continue to emerge. In a memo sent to senators, Senate President Andy Gardiner outlined the timeline that he plans on following during the session showing that the chamber will focus on healthcare access the first day. He will “likely” plan budget conferences with the House the weekend of June 5-7. “So you should plan on staying in Tallahassee,” Gardiner told members of…

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UF Health Jax tells Rick Scott: Charity care is commitment to ‘social responsibility’

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Northeast Florida’s largest public hospital and academic medical center sent Gov. Rick Scott a letter this week responding to his series of questions about the facility’s financial woes and why it has the dubious distinction of being most reliant on supplemental Medicaid dollars. University of Health Florida Jacksonville Chief Executive Officer Russell E. Armistead’s letter (below) includes a confidential review by a national accounting firm prepared for the Jacksonville Civic Council that shows the hospital is “one of the most cost effective academic…

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Rick Scott doesn’t offer much on Low Income Pool letter from feds

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott isn’t saying what his next move will be. Scott on Thursday would not say whether he would drop his lawsuit against the federal government now that the Florida has been given tentative approval that the Low Income Pool program will exist over for the next two years. “It’s not even official. It’s not even done yet,” Scott said, when asked if the news from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services was enough to get him to drop…

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Now is not the time to back off healthcare access, Senate Prez Andy Gardiner tells members

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Senate President Andy Gardiner sent a memo to members on Thursday advising that the tentative $1 billion approval of Low Income Pool funds for fiscal year 2015-16 does not mean that Florida’s healthcare debate is over. In fact, it’s the opposite. “The news brings certainty to what we have known for over a year–the LIP program is changing and Florida needs a new way to address uncompensated care,” Gardner said in his memo to members. The Centers for Medicare and…

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Feds advise Florida that LIP could be $1 billion this year, $600 million next year

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The budget impasse paralyzing the state could come to an end soon as the federal government advised Florida today in a letter that it could receive an additional $1 billion in supplemental Medicaid funds to help pay hospitals for providing care to the uninsured and poor. The state can expect $600 million in supplemental dollars — officially known as Low Income Pool– for 2016-17, according to the letter that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sent to Deputy Medicaid Director…

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Rick Scott’s Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding not happy with lack of responses from hopsitals

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Members of Rick Scott’s blue-ribbon healthcare commission were swimming in data, but on Wednesday members made clear that they wanted additional information and took aim at hospitals for not voluntarily providing all the information that was requested of them. Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding member Marili Cancio Johnson asked the commission staff to compile a list of hospitals that didn’t respond to the voluntary data call and, moreover, asked staff to identify how much Medicaid and Low Income Pool…

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Rick Scott kicks off commission meeting with brief remarks

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Gov. Rick Scott was in Tallahassee on Wednesday but he did not make an appearance at the inaugural meeting of the Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding. The governor made a brief phone call in which he thanked the nine commission members for agreeing to serve on the panel and then told them that their focus was examining the role of taxpayer funding in health care, whether it be for hospitals, insurance companies or other providers. “We’ve got to get a return…

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