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Commission must look at all healthcare spending, lobbyist says

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Any commission on healthcare costs should make sure to include all parts of the delivery system, not just hospital costs. Pharmaceuticals, durable medical equipment, Medicaid HMOs, and ambulatory surgical centers also are part of the healthcare delivery system and contribute to healthcare costs, said Tony Carvalho, president Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida. “If they are going to look at healthcare costs they need to look at everything,” said Carvalho, whose association represents 14 teaching, children’s and regional perinatal intensive…

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First public meeting in Orlando on Medicaid waiver draws small crowd

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Supplemental Medicaid funding and whether Florida should expand healthcare access to 800,000 uninsured working Floridians was the issue that brought the 2015 session to a grinding halt. In Orlando, though, the issue of Low Income Pool funding and Medicaid expansion didn’t draw crowds as the Agency for Health Care Administration held the first of three public meetings on a proposed amendment to the 1115 waiver that allows the LIP program to operate. Though scheduled to last for two hours, just…

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Rick Scott healthcare agenda: A no-LIP budget and nixing certificates of need

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Gov. Rick Scott unveiled what appears to be an ambitious healthcare agenda he plans on tackling in the weeks before July 1. Though the governor didn’t have a healthcare agenda going into the 2015 session, Scott announced in a press release that he will develop a Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding that will, among other things, examine eliminating Florida’s certificate of need laws. Certificate of need is a regulatory program to curb the growth in heatlhcare expenditures by limiting the…

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Details on Rick Scott’s hospital commission start to emerge

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As the dysfunctional 2015 legislative session continued on Wednesday with the Florida Senate threatening to sue the House for its abrupt sine die, Gov. Rick Scott floated to the media details about the hospital and healthcare commission he plans on convening. Scott released a draft outline of the commission that shows he plans on examining hospitals and insurance companies and will examine the salaries and benefits of executive staff, management, lobbyists and legal counsel. Specific to financial data, Scott’s commission…

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Senate OKs health board appointees, but not Department of Health secretary

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The Senate on Wednesday approved appointees to the boards of medicine, nursing, podiatry,  dentistry, chiropractic medicine and physical therapy, among others, without fanfare. The boards are located within the Florida Department of Health and charged with regulating healthcare professionals. The Senate had not, however, moved to confirm the secretary of the Florida Department of Health, John Armstrong, M.D. Armstrong appeared before the Senate Health Policy Committee earlier this month but was not confirmed by the panel after refusing to answer questions…

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Rick Scott sues feds over Obamacare, Low Income Pool dollars

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Gov. Rick Scott filed a lawsuit in federal court in Pensacola on Tuesday seeking declaratory relief that the Obama Administration violated the U.S. Constitution by withholding supplemental Medicaid funding from the state in the form of Low Income Pool dollars. The lawsuit was filed shortly after the House of Representatives announced on Tuesday it was adjourning for the regular legislative session due to an impasse on Medicaid expansion and the Low Income Pool program. The Florida Senate has proposed in…

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Healthcare train doesn’t make it out of station before House calls it quits

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Heath care was the divisive issue of the 2015 regular legislative session with healthcare financing and Medicaid expansion proving to be issues too large to bridge differences. When the House of Representatives abruptly called it quits on Tuesday, several healthcare issues outside of Medicaid went down in a fiery crash. Longtime healthcare lobbyist Christopher Nuland said when House Speaker Steve Crisafulli addressed the chamber and House Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Corcoran announced Sine Die, he was “dumbfounded. Every lobbyist had the same mouth-open expression,” Nuland said.…

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