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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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House offers Senate $600 million to walk away from Medicaid expansion

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The House rejected the Senate’s proposal to extend the session until June 30 and upped its offer to $600 million in contingency funding to pad the loss of supplemental Medicaid funding called Low Income Pool if the Senate would back away from its push to expand Medicaid to low-income working Floridians. The contingency funds would kick in after the state hears back from the federal government as to the amount of Low Income Pool funds Florida can expect, the House…

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Senate counters House with Medicaid expansion but Tom Lee says other health care issues could be in play during an extended session

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The Florida Senate has not backed off its position that working uninsured Floridians need to have access to health insurance and that the Medicaid supplemental program known as Low Income Pool should remain intact. In a counteroffer to the House’s offer to put $200 million into healthcare financing the Senate held firm on its Medicaid expansion and puts $604.8 million in contingencies to offset LIP losses and to shore up Medicaid HMOs that are at risk because of increased pharmaceutical costs.…

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House offers $200 million to Senate to get budget negotiations rolling

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With just one week left in the legislative session, the House on Thursday offered to spend $200 million in general revenue to help fund hospitals in the absence of the federal Low Income Pool. “It is a proposal that is on their desk right now,” House Speaker Steve Crisafulli told reporters announcing the proposal. There was no substantive healthcare policy offered with the money, Crisafulli said. The $200 million could draw down another $305 million in federal Medicaid dollars, which…

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Rick Scott turns up the heat on Florida Senate and hospitals

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With just eight days left in the 2015 legislative session, Gov. Rick Scott has turned up the heat on the Florida Senate. Scott called Democrat and Republican senators into his office on Wednesday to discuss his legislative priorities, such as tax cuts and increased spending for education. He also advised the senators that he could wield his veto pen on their priority legislation or on funding issues, if and when a budget is passed. State Sen. Jeremy Ring told Florida Politics he met with Scott…

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Biz group says focus should be Medicaid financing, not health access expansion

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The Legislature should focus its efforts on securing continued supplemental Medicaid funding for Florida hospitals but should not push ahead with a plan to provide health insurance access to uninsured Floridians, Florida Chamber President and Chief Executive Officer Mark Wilson said in a memo Wednesday. The memo, directed to the Chamber’s board of directors and members Health Care Task members, said there are two realities in Tallahassee: The Senate’s current Medicaid “expansion” plan does not address important costs driver reforms…

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Facing budget train wreck, Rick Scott proposes “continuation” plan

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The annual session of the Florida Legislature came crashing down on Tuesday, as both House and Senate Republicans calcified their positions regarding hospital funding and Medicaid expansion. The impasse prompted Florida Gov. Rick Scott to finally weigh in late in the day, saying he would call lawmakers back into special session if they can’t find a resolution quickly to the ongoing dispute that has created a $4 billion divide between the two chambers. Scott also floated out the idea of…

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