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Rick Scott’s Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding not happy with lack of responses from hopsitals

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Members of Rick Scott’s blue-ribbon healthcare commission were swimming in data, but on Wednesday members made clear that they wanted additional information and took aim at hospitals for not voluntarily providing all the information that was requested of them. Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding member Marili Cancio Johnson asked the commission staff to compile a list of hospitals that didn’t respond to the voluntary data call and, moreover, asked staff to identify how much Medicaid and Low Income Pool…

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Five things to look for at today’s meeting of Rick Scott’s hospital commission

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The much-written about Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding holds its inaugural meeting in Tallahassee today. Gov. Rick Scott, a former healthcare and hospital executive, has spent much of his time in the three weeks since lawmakers have left town focusing on building a continuation base budget and negotiating with and suing the federal government over supplemental Medicaid dollars called Low Income Pool. Here are five things to look for coming out of today’s meeting: Will hospitals get called out…

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Commission appointees contribute to Rick Scott, his political action committee, and other GOP candidates

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Healthcare experience may not be a prerequisite to get onto the newly created Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding, but contributing to political committee and candidates doesn’t hurt. Carlos Beruff, a homebuilder from Parrish, Florida, is the executive director of the commission. A review of campaign finance records shows that Beruff gave a $107,369.69 to Republican candidates and causes over the years. Nearly $80,000 of it went to Gov. Rick Scott or his Let’s Get to Work committee –including  $3,000 to…

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