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Gov. Scott tells Legislature: Get a Medicaid block grant

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Gov. Rick Scott wants a Medicaid block grant. That was the governor’s message in a gaggle with reporters on Tuesday to discuss his meeting with Sylvia Burwell, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, on Wednesday. The governor said he hopes the federal government will reconsider its decision on Low Income Pool funding so the state can prepare a budget for the upcoming year. Scott said the government should continue the program because it helps low-income people. When…

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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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What’s the aftermath of King v Burwell? Column offers ‘pedestrian view’

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The Supreme Court of the United States has never had such a central role in the healthcare system as it recently has. First in 2012, when it was asked to decide whether the federal healthcare law is constitutional, and again now as the court prepares to issue a ruling in the second challenge to the law, King v Burwell. Paul H. Keckley, managing director in the Navigant Healthcare Practice, offers a “pedestrian view” of the practical implications of the court’s…

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First public meeting in Orlando on Medicaid waiver draws small crowd

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Supplemental Medicaid funding and whether Florida should expand healthcare access to 800,000 uninsured working Floridians was the issue that brought the 2015 session to a grinding halt. In Orlando, though, the issue of Low Income Pool funding and Medicaid expansion didn’t draw crowds as the Agency for Health Care Administration held the first of three public meetings on a proposed amendment to the 1115 waiver that allows the LIP program to operate. Though scheduled to last for two hours, just…

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Rick Scott healthcare agenda: A no-LIP budget and nixing certificates of need

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Gov. Rick Scott unveiled what appears to be an ambitious healthcare agenda he plans on tackling in the weeks before July 1. Though the governor didn’t have a healthcare agenda going into the 2015 session, Scott announced in a press release that he will develop a Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding that will, among other things, examine eliminating Florida’s certificate of need laws. Certificate of need is a regulatory program to curb the growth in heatlhcare expenditures by limiting the…

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Barack Obama hasn’t changed course on LIP, Medicaid

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The Obama administration said Wednesday it had not changed its position on Medicaid expansion and hospital funds, despite contrary interpretations from lawmakers. The confusion comes a day after Gov. Rick Scott filed a federal lawsuit accusing the Obama administration of coercing Florida into expanding Medicaid by withholding more than $1 billion in hospital funds. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a statement late Tuesday saying the low-income pool (LIP) hospital funding is not dependent on whether a state…

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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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