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Feds advise Florida that LIP could be $1 billion this year, $600 million next year

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The budget impasse paralyzing the state could come to an end soon as the federal government advised Florida today in a letter that it could receive an additional $1 billion in supplemental Medicaid funds to help pay hospitals for providing care to the uninsured and poor. The state can expect $600 million in supplemental dollars — officially known as Low Income Pool– for 2016-17, according to the letter that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sent to Deputy Medicaid Director…

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Rick Scott defends his call for Florida hospitals to share the wealth

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Rick Scott‘s call for Florida hospitals to share their profits if the federal government refuses to authorize $2.2 billion in healthcare spending has been greeted as a form of socialism by critics, including some from his own party. “That’s government price controls,” Niceville-based GOP state Sen. Don Gaetz said in a recent radio interview. “That really brought the Soviet Union into a ‘Going Out of Business’ sale.” Earlier this month, Scott proposed to the Florida Hospital Association that if the U.S. Health and…

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Rick Scott goes to Washington to talk LIP (again) as hospitals prepare for austere year

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As the rhetoric around Medicaid funding grows louder Florida hospitals, caught in a Medicaid financing war between the state and federal government, are beginning to brace for what a pared-back, austere budget might mean. On Tuesday Scott met with members of the Florida Congressional Delegation to update them on Florida’s “battle” with the administration over Low Income Pool funding, according to a press release issued by Gov. Rick Scott‘s office. LIP are supplemental Medicaid dollars made possible by a Medicaid…

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Allison Tant calls Rick Scott out for his Medicaid expansion remark

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Florida Democratic Party Chair Allison Tant issued a statement saying “sometimes there are no words” after Gov. Rick Scott told reporters he supported Medicaid expansion in 2013 because the state had just gotten approval from the federal government to expand its mandatory managed care program for three years. “The lengths to which Rick Scott will go to mislead the public are disgusting,” she said in a release. “Shame is not a strong enough word.” In a press availability on Thursday Scott avoided…

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Rick Scott sues feds over Obamacare, Low Income Pool dollars

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Gov. Rick Scott filed a lawsuit in federal court in Pensacola on Tuesday seeking declaratory relief that the Obama Administration violated the U.S. Constitution by withholding supplemental Medicaid funding from the state in the form of Low Income Pool dollars. The lawsuit was filed shortly after the House of Representatives announced on Tuesday it was adjourning for the regular legislative session due to an impasse on Medicaid expansion and the Low Income Pool program. The Florida Senate has proposed in…

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Senate Prez Andy Gardiner sends letters to state and feds on Medicaid expansion

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Senate President Andy Gardiner on Monday sent letters to federal and state officials regarding Florida’s effort to win approval of a revamped hospital funding formula. The uncertainty over the loss of more than $1 billion in federal aid has resulted in a budget standoff between the House and Senate. The Agency for Health Care Administration earlier this month asked federal officials to approve the state’s application for a new round of federal aid for the Low Income Pool. Part of…

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Obama uses hospital funds to push Medicaid expansion

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The Obama administration is dialing up the pressure on a handful of states that have resisted expanding Medicaid coverage for their low-income residents under the federal health care overhaul. The leverage comes from a little-known federal fund that helps states and hospitals recoup some of the cost of caring for uninsured patients. The administration says states can just expand Medicaid, as the health care law provides, and then they wouldn’t need as much extra help with costs for the uninsured.…

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