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Florida’s healthcare chief Liz Dudek on hot seat as Senate considers her confirmation

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The session-long drama over health care and Medicaid expansion may peak today when a Senate panel considers the confirmation of Liz Dudek, the head of the agency that oversees Medicaid. Dudek rolled through a previous committee stop, but a flurry of finger-pointing regarding negotiations between the federal government and the state over the last two weeks, has changed all that. One big question looming from Senate leaders: What did the Agency for Health Care Administration actually do to try to…

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House, Senate, and feds stick to their guns on Medicaid dollars as session slips away

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What started out smoothly a few months ago now appears to be falling apart as leading Republicans in the House and Senate began finger-pointing over a healthcare dispute that appears likely to derail the 2015 session. The latest evidence that the May 1 session would not end on time came after the Department of Health and Human Services sent a letter to Medicaid Deputy Director Justin Senior outlining where the federal government stands on Low Income Pool negotiations with the state.…

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Feds to Florida: Medicaid expansion is better use of tax dollars

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The federal government on Tuesday sent a letter to Deputy Medicaid Director Justin Senior saying that expanding Medicaid to low-income, uninsured Floridians is a better use of tax dollars than establishing Medicaid supplemental spending formulas such as the Low Income Pool. Department of Health and Human Services Acting Director Vikki Wachino said in the April 14 letter  that “coverage rather than uncompensated care pools is the best way to secure affordable access coverage to health care for low-income individuals, and…

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Tom Lee says he’s making plans on how to bring the session in for a landing

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Senate Appropriations Chairman Tom Lee said Thursday night that he is beginning to make plans on how to bring the 2015 session in for a landing if legislators cannot solve the budget impasse between the House and Senate spending plans. Lee said the chambers need to reach some sort of accord by “the middle of next week or thereabouts and then we are out of business.” Then the questions become whether the Legislature extends the regular 2015 session or whether the…

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Andy Gardiner says Senate won’t play games with Rick Scott’s health nominees

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The Florida Senate isn’t going to play games with Gov. Rick Scott’s executive appointments in the wake of the Medicaid meltdown that is occurring in Tallahassee. Senate President Andy Gardiner on Wednesday told reporters that he holds Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Liz Dudek in high regard and doesn’t see her nomination to run the state’s Medicaid agency at risk. “I like the secretary a lot and I have a tremendous amount of respect for her,” Gardiner said. He…

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Budget impasse continues as time ticks away on regular session

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No progress has been made to bridge the $4 billion-plus gap between the House and Senate’s proposed spending plans as the Legislature closes in on completing the sixth week of session. But Senate President Andy Gardiner and House Speaker Steve Crisafulli didn’t seem worried that the impasse could throw the chambers into overtime.  At least not yet. Meanwhile, talk about why Low Income Pool negotiations broke down and who is responsible for the discord has ratcheted up with both the…

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Rick Scott says feds told state, ‘Don’t call us, we’ll call you’ regarding LIP negotiations

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Gov. Rick Scott on Wednesday said the state of Florida did not cut off negotiations with the federal government and put blame for the Medicaid meltdown on the federal government, instead. Scott told a group of reporters Wednesday afternoon that negotiators with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services told Medicaid Deputy Director Justin Senior that they wouldn’t be able to meet with him for a few weeks and, “Don’t call us, basically, we’ll call you.” Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Liz Dudek issued a…

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