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Five minutes with Matt Gaetz, talking FDA lies and being on the back 9 with medicinal marijuana

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Growers may want to start planning to plant cannabis seeds. Whether the authorization will come under the Compassionate Medicinal Cannabis Act of 2014, or SPB 7066, which is moving in the Senate or under an amended bill is still unclear. Rep. Matt Gaetz, however, said Thursday that Florida “is on the back 9” in clearing the legal hurdles for a medicinal marijuana industry. Wednesday when the House approved the Right to Try Act, a bill allowing terminally ill patients to…

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Telehealth bill moves in the Senate but will the House take it up?

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A Senate healthcare spending panel on Tuesday gave the nod to a telehealth bill but House Health and Human Services Committee Chairman state Rep. Jason Brodeur says he’s not sure the Legislature needs to address the issue. The Senate healthcare spending panel tagged on two late filed amendments to the bill, CS/SB 478. The first amendment made clear that advanced registered nurse practitioners can use telehealth to order a controlled substance to a patient in a hospital or a hospice.…

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Andy Gardiner says Senate will talk Medicaid, health care with ‘anybody at a any time’

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Senate President Andy Gardiner made an appearance at the A Healthy Florida Works press conference on Tuesday, joining a group of business leaders who are supporting his chamber’s plan to draw down Medicaid dollars and provide access to health care for as many as 800,000 uninsured Floridians. With less than three weeks left in the 2015 regular session, the group called on the Florida House of Representatives to join the Florida Senate and support a Medicaid expansion as proposed in…

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Tom Lee says he’s making plans on how to bring the session in for a landing

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Senate Appropriations Chairman Tom Lee said Thursday night that he is beginning to make plans on how to bring the 2015 session in for a landing if legislators cannot solve the budget impasse between the House and Senate spending plans. Lee said the chambers need to reach some sort of accord by “the middle of next week or thereabouts and then we are out of business.” Then the questions become whether the Legislature extends the regular 2015 session or whether the…

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House panel OKs balance billing ban, sponsor says unlikely to pass this year

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Health insurers and HMOs may have won the battle in a House healthcare committee on Thursday but they may end up losing the war this session. The House Health and Human Services Committee approved a bill that would ban nonparticipating providers from balance billing patients in need of emergency care under CS/HB 681. Additionally, the measure would place into law a reimbursement schedule for nonparticipating providers. But CS/HB 681 bill sponsor state Rep. Carlos Trujillo acknowledged that he didn’t think the…

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House amends direct primary care bill to (almost) mirror new Senate healthcare train

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The House and Senate could be moving closer to agreement on a healthcare bill about direct primary care. The House Health Care Services Committee on Thursday tagged a strike all amendment onto its direct primary care proposal, HB 7047, to include “medical tourism.” The move makes the bill near identical to a proposed committee bill that the Senate Health Policy Committee Chairman state Sen. Aaron Bean unveiled at a committee meeting earlier this week, 7084, sans a provision in the…

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Mitch Perry Report for 4.8.15 — Medicaid expansion. Again.

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Greetings from the Motel 6 off the Apalachee Parkway in Tallahassee, where things are getting increasingly hot in the Capitol. Literally. Today’s temperatures are supposed to hover near 90 degrees. That’s not a record, but temps here — like in the Tampa Bay area — are consistently running around 7-8 degrees warmer than usual for early spring. And it’s getting hot between the state Senate, House and Gov. Rick Scott regarding — what else? — Medicaid expansion. Yesterday a Senate committee…

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