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Five things to look for at today’s meeting of Rick Scott’s hospital commission

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The much-written about Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding holds its inaugural meeting in Tallahassee today. Gov. Rick Scott, a former healthcare and hospital executive, has spent much of his time in the three weeks since lawmakers have left town focusing on building a continuation base budget and negotiating with and suing the federal government over supplemental Medicaid dollars called Low Income Pool. Here are five things to look for coming out of today’s meeting: Will hospitals get called out…

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For-profit hospitals ask Gov. Rick Scott to raise their taxes

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The for-profit hospital chain Hospital Corporation of America is asking Gov. Rick Scott to raise taxes on hospitals. Presidents from the four HCA hospital regions in Florida sent a letter to Scott regarding the  Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding saying that the Low Income Pool is not a long- term solution and that Scott consider increasing a tax hospitals currently pay and putting the new revenue into an increase in hospital base rates. Current base rates are insufficient to…

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Agencies respond to Rick Scott’s request for critical needs

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Florida agencies responded to Gov. Rick Scott‘s call to identify critical needs that may be jeopardized if the state’s budget expires this summer, including processing $152 million in child support services a month, ensuring uninterrupted supervision of incarcerated individuals and selling Lottery tickets. From the Office of Insurance Regulation to the Department of Management Services to the Division of Emergency Management, agencies submitted their lists to the governor identifying what services would be eliminated. The Fish and Wildlife Commission advised…

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Infograph shows Obamacare enrollment, tax credits in 17 Republican congressional districts

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More than 1.46 million Floridians in Republican congressional districts will lose a total of $6.8 billion in tax credits for health care if the U.S. Supreme Court rules in King v Burwell that the federal government overstepped its authority by granting tax credits to people purchasing Obamcare plans through a federal health exchange. The information was compiled by the Committee on Energy and Commerce minority staff. It shows that the district that could suffer the most is U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz Balart’s, where 187,000 people have enrolled in Obamacare…

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Hospitals tell Rick Scott in a draft letter: Don’t tax us

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The Florida Hospital Association has a message for Gov. Rick Scott: Don’t inrease our taxes. In a May 18 two-page draft letter, the association has written the governor a letter making clear that the hospitals don’t believe a way to plug the loss of the federal Low Income Pool program is through a tax on their revenues. LIP is a $2.2 billion program of supplemental Medicaid payments made mostly to hospitals and funded mostly through county dollars as well as…

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House, Senate call special session and it’s wide open on health care, budget

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Nine days after announcing the dates the Florida Legislature issued the proclamation for the special session. The call is wide open, including Medicaid expansion, elimination of certificate of need law, direct primary care, state group health insurance changes and the budget and conforming bills and tax relief. As previously announced the session will run from June 1-20. “At this time, budget allocations have not been agreed to by the President and the Speaker, but will be reached before the beginning…

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Another healthcare letter from Rick Scott, this one to Shands Jax

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Gov. Rick Scott rounded off his letter-writing week with a letter to officials at UF Health Jacksonville asking 15 questions that could provide insight as to why the hospital has become “extraordinarily reliant on federal (Medicaid) funds and what can be done to improve the financial viability” of the facility. Scott sent the letter to Chief Executive Officer UF Health Jacksonville Russell Armistead, asking:  How do UF Health Jacksonville’s recent expenses related to patient care compare to the previous 10…

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