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Scott Administration acknowledges Low Income Pool won’t be extended

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For weeks the administration of Florida Gov. Rick Scott has downplayed the expected loss of more than $1 billion in federal funds that goes to hospitals that treat the poor and uninsured. But that changed on Friday as it is becoming more evident that the state must come up with an alternative solution in order to avoid making deep spending cuts in this year’s budget. Scott’s main spokeswoman, Jackie Schutz, acknowledged that the federal government would not renew the low-income…

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Former Jeb Bush health czar has a message for Florida Republicans: Get a waiver

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He advised former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and the Republican Governors Association. A go-to health care policy wonk for Republicans, Alan Levine now says he has a message for Florida Republicans in the Legislature: Tap into a 1332 innovation waiver under the Affordable Care Act. The waiver allows the state to essentially circumvent the employer mandate, the  individual mandates as well as provisions on exchanges and premium credits. “If the Legislature wants to be bold and offer a conservative solution,…

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More part-time employees offered State Group Health benefits in 2015

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The early numbers are in and it appears that more part-time employees were offered access to the state group health insurance plan than in 2014. The Office of Economic and Demographic Research published the results from the January estimating conference. The summary showed that 14,201 more OPS — other personal service — employees were being offered health care coverage in 2015 than the prior year. OPS means “other personal services” and many of the OPS employees are graduate students and…

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Is a CON challenge imminent in Hillsborough County?

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A decision by the Agency for Health Care Administration to award a new hospice program in Hillsborough County to a hospital affiliated hospice program could draw a challenge from the longstanding existing provider, LifePath, if a Christmas Eve letter to the state is any indication. Nine applications were submitted to provide new hospice services in Hillsborough County. The state last week announced the hospice program would be awarded to West Florida Health, which is a newly formed company sponsored by…

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2014 In Review: Ebola scare had Florida preparing, criticizing the feds

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Florida this past year never was seriously under threat of having any of its residents come down with Ebola, but that didn’t stop state officials and Gov. Rick Scott from criticizing the federal response in the weeks leading up to Scott’s re-election. State officials also carried out a series of counter measures while also demanding the release of federal money to allow Florida to ramp up its preparation efforts. An Ebola epidemic began ravaging several West African nations this  year and…

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2014 In Review: New nursing home beds have investors competing for businesss

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When Florida announced it needed 3,115 nursing home beds in the summer of 2014, investors jumped at the opportunity to offer new services to the Baby Boomer population that’s aging in Florida. Six months later staff at the Agency for Health Care Administration in Tallahassee are spending the last weeks of the year poring through applications that have been submitted for those beds as well as hospices. December 24 was the “omissions deadline”–or  the date that the complete applications–along with…

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2014 In Review: Floridians flock to Obamacare plans

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A glitchy website didn’t prevent hundreds of thousands of Floridians from buying  health insurance through the federal exchange (healthcare.gov) in 2014, the first year of available coverage under President Barack Obama’s signature legislation. The Obama administration lowered its early estimates of enrollment, which placed the number of Floridians tapping into the federal exchange at 980,000. The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation in the summer put the number of Floridians at 762,723. The OIR’s numbers include Patient Protection and Affordable Care…

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