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Steve Crisafulli: ‘Today is a very good day’

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House Speaker Steve Crisafulli called it a “very good day” after the House and Senate were able to agree on the first step in the budget special session: the dates. “While significant discussions lay before us, today marks a very good day for Florida as we have reached agreement on dates for a budget Special Session,” Crisafulli said in a press release. “We look forward to working with our partners in the Senate as we make continued progress in the…

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Sylvia Burwell tells Rick Scott his LIP is too big

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Florida’s request for $2 billion in supplemental Medicaid funding is too high, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell told Rick Scott at a meeting, according to a release issued by the federal government. The release also says that a preliminary view of the proposed amendment “falls short” of the principles the government has concerns with. The release, dubbed a “readout,” also points out that Burwell told Scott  that whether a state receives federal funding for an uncompensated…

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Rick Scott tells feds, ‘We need federal action right now’

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Gov. Rick Scott said on Wednesday that he is prepared to walk away from additional Medicaid dollars and prepare a base budget if the state doesn’t get approval from the federal government on the Low Income Pool soon. Scott addressed the media  after meeting with Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell. Scott went to Washington to request the federal government to approve the state’s amendment to its existing 1115 waiver that allows the state to operate a mandatory Medicaid managed-care…

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For human research, Florida Department of Health gets ‘gold seal’

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The Florida Department of Health was the first health agency in the nation to earn the “gold seal” from a nationally recognized accrediting agency for its protocols involving human research. On Wednesday members of the Department of Health’s Institutional Review Board met in Tallahassee to discuss ways the state can improve its Human Research Protection Program in order to keep its accreditation. The focus of the meeting was specifically on obtaining consent from children who are involved in research and…

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Rick Scott’s commission is focusing on the costs

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Gov. Rick Scott issued an executive order identifying nine areas he wants a blue-ribbon healthcare commission to examine regarding healthcare costs in Florida, including  how much money “taxpayer-funded” hospitals spend on lobbyists, campaign contributions, and advertising. This is the second healthcare commission the governor has created since 2011 and, like its predecessor, it has a focus on the care delivered at “taxpayer supported” hospitals. In the May 5 executive order, Scott spells out the profitability percentages in 2012 and 2006 for…

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Rick Scott’s healthcare commission the hot ticket in town

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There are more questions than answers in Tallahassee regarding healthcare financing, Medicaid and the inevitable special session this summer. One thing is for sure, though: there’s plenty of interest in serving on the healthcare commission that Gov. Rick Scott created through an executive order on Tuesday and tasked with analyzing the state’s healthcare costs and investigate what can be done to lower them. “It is the intent of this administration to continue to develop cost-effective, patient-cenered approaches for making healthcare…

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Rick Scott working on a new 2015-16 spending plan, ‘base’ budget

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Gov. Rick Scott said on Tuesday that he’s working on a base, or continuation budget, for the upcoming year. “I’m looking at special session, I’m looking at a base budget, I’m working on our own base budget because I want to make sure our state continues to operate after June 30.” The Legislature is charged with annually crafting the state’s operating budget and passing the budget. Florida law requires the governor to submit his proposed spending plan and submit copies…

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