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ClickAClinic named Florida’s first licensed telemedicine service

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As state lawmakers consider increasing telemedicine statewide, one provider of remote services takes the lead by becoming the first licensed telemedicine consulting service in Florida. In March, the Agency for Health Care Administration approved Lantana-based ClickAClinic as the only licensed telemedicine platform in Florida. ClickAClinic is a cloud-based platform that safely transmits medical information and healthcare services between providers and patients. Telemedicine, or telehealth, uses telecommunications technology to help patients avoid waiting rooms and late-night visits to the ER. ClickAClinic…

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The day that was in Florida Politics — March 16

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It was a day of announcements at the state Capitol. Morning broke with former legislator Joe Scarborough announcing that Marco Rubio was selling his Tallahassee home.   Details here. Rubio had purchased a three-bedroom/two-bath house with fellow lawmaker David Rivera in 2005. It has been a bit of a headache for Rubio. The two were unable to unload it when the Great Recession created a housing glut and they had left Tallahassee for new jobs in Washington. A bank had started…

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Legislative heavyweights slim down as part of ‘Biggest Loser’ competition

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Legislative heavyweights lined up outside the Third Floor Capitol Clinic on Monday. The four most influential legislators in health care — Reps. Jason Brodeur and Matt Hudson and Sens. Rene Garcia and Aaron Bean–weren’t talking Low Income Pool, telemedicine, Medicaid expansion, or any other health care issues, though. They lined up to weigh in and compete in the 2015 Biggest Loser Contest. Modeled after the popular TV series the Tallahassee Biggest Loser Contest encourages those in the legislative process –either…

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If Florida Health Choices is a gift, Richard Corcoran will return it

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Health Policy Committee Chairman and Vice Chairman Aaron Bean and Eleanor Sobel are working together on a Senate Medicaid expansion plan. But the two are at odds over how it should be administered, with Bean championing a little-known program called Florida Health Choices and Sobel throwing her weight behind the better known Florida Healthy Kids Corp, which administered the popular state children’s health insurance program. Sobel withdrew an amendment that would have carved the Florida Health Choices out of the mix in the development…

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Senate Health Policy Committee to decide how Medicaid expansion would be handled

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The Florida Senate is considering a Medicaid expansion and wants to create a new program to administer the expansion called the Florida Health Insurance Affordability Exchange. Senate Health policy committee members will not only debate the merits of tapping into available Medicaid dollars under the federal health-care law, often called Obamacare, but will also debate the merits of what organization should administer the new program. Senate Health Policy Committee chairman state Sen. Aaron Bean wants the Florida Health Choices Program…

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Senate Health Policy Committee files Medicaid expansion proposal

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After hearing yesterday from a panel of Florida health care experts as well as some from Indiana Gov. Mike Pence‘s administration, the Senate Health Policy Committee led by Chairman Sen. Aaron Bean has filed a proposal Thursday night to accept federal funds to extend Medicaid coverage to Florida’s nearly 1 million uninsured. The plan would create a Florida Health Insurance Affordability Exchange Program, or FHIX, under the auspices of the Agency for Health Care Administration. The plan includes many tenets of the Hoosier state’s plan,…

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Senate health care plan emerging as LIP negotiations heat up

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Work requirements, co-payments, and commercial insurance or managed care companies are likely to be featured in a health plan that will emerge from the Senate next week as the chamber begins to discuss a health care plan the state could use if a $2 billion Medicaid financing is cut off by the federal government. Senate Health Policy Committee Chairman Aaron Bean said he plans to make available at the committee’s meeting next week a draft plan with a conservative approach…

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