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Today, Gov. Rick Scott announced the reappointment of Elizabeth Dudek as secretary of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA). Dudek was appointed secretary of AHCA by Gov. Scott in March 2011. Prior to her appointment, Dudek served as AHCA’s deputy secretary for the Division of Health Quality Assurance. “Secretary Dudek has been part of my team since the very beginning and I am confident she will continue to do an outstanding job as secretary,” said Scott in a…

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The state Agency for Health Care Administration last week withdrew a proposed managed long-term care rule that had both the Medicaid HMOs and disability advocates concerned. The rule was withdrawn on December 4. The Agency for Health Care Administration did not immediately return calls. The proposed rule laid out the requirements for how the aged and disabled would qualify for managed long-term care community-based services and how the Department of Elder Affairs would screen applicants and compile a waiting list. The…

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Florida Health Choices has had a relationship with Tallahassee public relations firm SalterMitchell since 2010. The “marketing and communication agency,” however, won’t be the lead on Florida Health Choices’ $75,000 marketing campaign aimed at advertising the availability of Obamacare plans in January. At a board of director’s meeting in Tallahassee on Friday, FHC Chief Executive Officer Rose Naff said that SalterMitchell had received correspondence from the Department of Health and Human Services notifying the firm that it couldn’t advertise the…

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Florida Health Choices has set Jan. 1, 2015 as the target date for its Obamacare plan offerings. Florida Health Choices Chief Executive Officer Rose Naff told members of the organization’s board of directors on Friday that the plans will be offered through the Florida Health Choices website during a soft roll out beginning the week of December 15. Florida Health Choices –a privately run “marketplace” where individuals and businesses could shop, up to now, for  scaled back and limited health…

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State Sen. Aaron Bean is returning as the point man on substantive health-care policy in the Senate. He told SaintPetersBlog on Thursday that he’s ready to “get back in the ring” when it comes to balancing technology and health care and that he’s also willing to expand Charlotte’s Web to include other diseases. “Telemedicine is still No. 1 with me,” Bean, chairman of the Senate Health Policy Committee, said when asked about his priorities for the coming year. After the…

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A bipartisan group of business leaders on Wednesday unveiled a plan that would extend coverage to an additional 800,000 Floridians by tapping into the statewide Medicaid managed care system and charging the newly insured monthly premiums. The proposal would provide coverage to all people who aren’t eligible for the current Medicaid program and with incomes below 138 percent of the federal poverty level. it would use federal Medicaid dollars and would operate under an 1115 Demonstration Waiver. Eventually it would…

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Since entering the Legislature, Rep. Jason Brodeur has wanted to chair the House Health & Human Services Committee. Now his goal has been reached Brodeur was named committee chairman earlier this week when House Speaker Steve Crisafulli released a list of committee chairmanships earlier this week. It’s not surprising he had his sights on the committee given before being named President of the Seminole County Regional Chamber of Commerce and before being elected to the Florida House in 2010, he negotiated managed…

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