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Christine Jordan Sexton has 329 articles published.

Rick Scott is in a letter-writing mood

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Gov. Rick Scott has been on a tear lately, shooting off a series of letters to the feds. In the last two days, the governor sent letters to U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell regarding Florida’s strained relations with the federal government. Scott sent the VA’s McDonald a letter on Wednesday thanking him for two things: providing Florida access to a survey report and accreditation of Veteran’s Nursing Homes. Scott expressed gratitude to McDonald for a follow-up to a…

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Modernizing interaction with voters: RPOF unveils a new website

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The Republican Party of Florida unveiled a new website, Florida GOP, and a new logo on Wednesday. “Let’s Stop Hillary in 2016” is the main page on the site, accompanied by the statement “America cannot afford a Hillary Clinton Presidency. Join us in making sure that Florida goes Republican in 2016.” The website will serve the county parties by connecting them to the state party website, according to a press release from the Republican Party of Florida announcing the new…

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GAO report calls for more transparency with Medicaid 1115 waivers

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The Department of Health and Human Services needs to be more transparent when it comes to approving sweeping Medicaid 1115  Demonstration waivers, a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office asserts. The 69-page GAO report recommends increased transparency in the management of billions dollars spent on health care. It says the Department of Health and Human Services should put in writing its  criteria for assessing whether Medicaid 1115 waivers are likely to promote the objectives of the  Medicaid program. The…

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House sends Gov. Scott bill creating City of Panacea & another that keeps Compassionate Care Hospice running

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The Florida House sent Gov. Rick Scott five bills on Tuesday for consideration, including a measure that would give a hospice an expedited process of getting a license to resume operating. Compassionate Care Hospice in Lakeland didn’t renew its license and state healthcare regulators ordered it to close down in March. The company claims to have mailed its license renewal on time but the state said it didn’t receive the paperwork and that the facility could not operate without a license. HB 441…

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Rick Scott goes to Washington to talk LIP (again) as hospitals prepare for austere year

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As the rhetoric around Medicaid funding grows louder Florida hospitals, caught in a Medicaid financing war between the state and federal government, are beginning to brace for what a pared-back, austere budget might mean. On Tuesday Scott met with members of the Florida Congressional Delegation to update them on Florida’s “battle” with the administration over Low Income Pool funding, according to a press release issued by Gov. Rick Scott‘s office. LIP are supplemental Medicaid dollars made possible by a Medicaid…

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Rick Scott’s profit-sharing idea not getting love from the Legislature or the hospitals

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Gov. Rick Scott’s idea that Florida hospitals share profits to brace for the loss of Low Income Pool dollars is not being warmly received by the the Legislature, which is in charge of allocating Medicaid dollars. House Speaker Steve Crisafulli said in a statement on Monday that there are “other solutions available that do not include a hospital profit share plan,” when asked about Scott’s proposal. Senate President Andy Gardiner has no comment on the proposal at this time, spokesperson Katie Betta said…

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David Simmons calls Senate health plan ‘a path to Medicaid extinction’

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State Sen. David Simmons on Tuesday sent a memo to Florida lawmakers along with an opinion column he wrote for the Orlando Sentinel calling the Senate’s proposal to expand health care a “path to Medicaid extinction.” In his memo, Simmons said there are “many misconceptions about the Senate’s healthcare plan,” and attached his op-ed piece that was published May 10. The first four paragraphs of the op-ed describe a parade of horribles that beset the Medicaid program. It is based on the “fatally flawed…

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