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Hearing in LIP lawsuit scratched; Rick Scott, Sylvia Burwell won’t have to appear in court

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A federal judge in Pensacola canceled an evidentiary hearing scheduled for Friday that could have required Gov. Rick Scott and Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell to appear in court. Judge M. Casey Rodgers issued a one-page ruling on Wednesday saying that lawyers for Scott had filed a notice with the federal court to withdraw their motion for a preliminary injunction. With no motion for preliminary injunction, the evidentiary hearing isn’t necessary. In her…

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Gov. Scott vetoes a trio of bills including one championed by Tom Lee

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Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday vetoed a trio of bills, including one by Senate budget chief Sen. Tom Lee and another he said he didn’t even need to reject. Lee supported a rewrite of the Administrative Procedures Act, HB 435, and sponsored the Senate companion bill. The governor said the changes in the bill could result in prolonged litigation impending an agency’s ability to perform core functions like sanctioning bad actors and protecting public health and safety.” The bill, Scott…

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Tick Tock budget is on the desks

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The Legislature can pass the budget at 5:37 p.m. Friday and call it quits. After meeting late into the night on Monday and adding $300 million more in spending, the General Appropriations Act was electronically furnished to the Legislature, governor and Cabinet at 5:37 Tuesday night. The Florida Constitution requires the Legislature to wait 72 hours before passing the General Appropriations Act and calling the session to an official end. The near $78.7 billion spending plan is nearly $29 billion…

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Florida Medicaid HMOs having trouble meeting state financial solvency requirements

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While hospitals’ financials have been under the microscope during the Regular and Special Legislative Sessions, another player in Florida’s Medicaid delivery system — managed-care plans — have escaped much of the scrutiny. But a report of the health plans shows that the plans lost a cumulative $542.9 million in 2014 in their Medicaid line of business. And business didn’t improve in the first quarter of 2015. Two of the 13 HMOs that provide health care to Medicaid patients in Florida’s…

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Medicaid HMOs fail to get $57 mil more out of state budget

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More than $300 million in additional revenue was plowed into the budget in the late hours of Monday night but, apparently, leaders did not agree to spending any more money on Medicaid. That’s a disappointment to the managed-care plans that are participating in Florida’s mandatory Medicaid managed-care program. They were hoping to get an infusion of $57 million in “grants and donations” trust funds that could have been used to draw down federal matching funds. In all, it would have…

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Steve Crisafulli downplays Senate rejection of House healthcare proposals

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House Republicans earlier this month rejected a Senate proposal to extend health coverage after a bitterly divisive debate that lasted nearly seven hours. House leaders such as state Rep. Jason Brodeur and House Speaker Steve Crisafulli contended a better way was to fix other problems with the state’s healthcare laws. The answer from the Senate? No debate, no vote. At least not now. On Monday, Senate Health Policy Committee Chairman state Sen. Aaron Bean announced his committee wouldn’t be voting…

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Medicaid managed-care plans getting rate increases

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Health plans that have been participating in the mandatory Medicaid managed-care program unfurled in Florida a little more than one year ago will be getting some pay increases in the coming months. A draft copy of the new rates shows that for the non-elderly population, plans wil, on average, have a 6.4 percent increase in rates over current rates, according to draft documents the Agency for Health Care Administration shared with the plans earlier this month. The average rate increase is…

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