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Another healthcare budget headache for Florida?

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Amid an ongoing dust-up over Florida’s healthcare spending, there are troubling signs that one of the reforms touted by Gov. Rick Scott may not be saving taxpayers money as initially promised. Scott signed into law in 2011 a measure that shifted Florida’s 3 million plus Medicaid patients into managed care. Scott praised the move and lobbied the federal government to grant approval for the shift. But now with the overhaul complete, HMOs have been pressing the Florida Legislature for rate…

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Nine appointments made to Gov. Rick Scott’s new healthcare, hospital commission

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Gov. Rick Scott named nine people to the newly created healthcare and hospital board on Monday, steering clear of appointing anyone to the commission who is affiliated with a hospital. One medical doctor serves on the commission. Many of the commission members Scott appointed have made campaign contributions to Scott, the governor’s political committee, Let’s Get to Work, or to other Republican candidates, including Carlos Beruff, who will chair the commission. Beruff, of Parrish, is a member of the South Florida Water…

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On-again, off-again LIP talks with federal government on again, says Liz Dudek

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Despite a looming lawsuit — and the meltdown of this year’s legislative session–Florida’s top healthcare official said that the state is talking again with its federal counterparts. Liz Dudek, the secretary for the Agency for Health Care Administration, told reporters on Tuesday that her agency had a “brief conversation” this week with federal officials. Dudek said the purpose of the call was to let the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services know that the state has held three public hearings…

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Gov. Scott reappoints 14 agency heads for another year despite Senate snub

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Gov. Rick Scott on Monday reappointed 14 men and women as directors of state agencies despite the Florida Senate refusing to confirm them during the regular session. The agencies run the gamut from Department of Economic Opportunity to the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to the State Technology Agency. Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Richard L. Swearingen and Department of Environmental Protection Jonathon Paul Steverson are not included in Scott’s press release. Both of those appointments require both Cabinet…

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Rick Scott’s executive appointments may be in trouble after all

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Senate President Andy Gardiner isn’t making any promises that the Senate will confirm Gov. Rick Scott‘s appointments for agency heads. Gardiner said he couldn’t make any assurances that the Senate would confirm any of the governor’s appointments, including Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Liz Dudek, who transformed the state’s Medicaid program into a mandatory managed-care health delivery system. Gardiner told reporters earlier in the month that he would not let the impasse over healthcare financing and Medicaid expansion interfere…

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Feds have until July 4 week to give Florida an answer on Medicaid amendment

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Florida’s budget showdown over hospital funding may not get resolved until mid-summer, thanks to a little-noticed series of deadlines that accompany the state’s official request to draw down billions in healthcare funding. The decision by the Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Liz Dudek on Monday to propose an amendment to the the existing Medicaid waiver and to solicit written input on the proposed amendment triggered time requirements that mean that legislators may not know the fate of the Low Income…

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Despite bluster, Rick Scott administration moves ahead with hospital plan

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Gov. Rick Scott’s administration is taking steps to try to win federal approval of a plan to draw down federal health funds after being criticized for not doing enough to ensure supplemental hospital funding will flow to the state. The Agency for Health Care Administration has scheduled three, two-hour meetings in Orlando, Miami and Tallahassee on April 29, April 30 and May 1, respectively, to take public testimony on an amendment to its sweeping Medicaid 1115 waiver. The amendment is…

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