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Senate ready to roll on budget over the weekend

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With the drama over health care playing out according to the expected script, the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature is finally ready to pivot to passing a new state budget. The Senate on Wednesday passed its healthcare coverage bill and sent it over to the House where it is anticipated that chamber will vote down the legislation. Despite the bitter debate over the healthcare bill, the two chambers must begin work on the must-pass bill of the year: the General Appropriations Act.…

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Amendment 1 getting short shrift because of LIP battle

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The multibillion-dollar healthcare fight has been “sucking the oxygen” out of the Capitol and has taken attention off Amendment 1, Senate Appropriations Chairman Tom Lee said on Tuesday. Lee, the Senate’s chief budget writer, told reporters following an Appropriations Committee hearing Tuesday afternoon that “frankly, Amendment 1 is a big deal and deserves more attention than it’s gotten.” Florida voters in 2014 overwhelmingly approved Amendment 1, a water and land conservation initiative that is expected to provide almost $740 million for programs…

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Deputy Secretary Medicaid Director Justin Senior pushing for quick LIP resolution

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Deputy Secretary for Medicaid Justin Senior had a busy day on Monday. Not only was Senior making a presentation at the House Health and Human Services Committee on Monday, he spent time on the phone with officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services discussing Florida’s new Low Income Pool proposal and Florida’s proposed plan to put the money into rates. The Department of Health and Human Services on Friday said it had not signed off on the idea Senior…

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A look at the info the House is giving members on Senate’s FHIX plan, Medicaid expansion

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The House Health and Human Services Committee meets for three hours on Monday and will “workshop” the Senate’s proposals to expand healthcare coverage to uninsured Floridians by tapping into Medicaid dollars under Obamacare. To assist them the committee will have a package of information compiled by House professional staff. There are pages of charts, figures, estimates and analyses that show that the Senate’s FHIX program would cost the state lots of money. Additionally, it could cost the newly insured lots…

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Washington has not signed off on Rick Scott’s new LIP proposal, feds say

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The federal government received Gov. Rick Scott‘s proposal to revamp the Low Income Pool and “continues to be engaged with Florida,” but the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services “has not communicated approval,” a spokesperson for HHS said Friday. Ben Wakana said CMS is reviewing the proposal as well as the public comments and is “working to understand the implications of the letter as well as the viability and sustainability of the proposed funding mechanism.” Florida was advised last week…

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Teaching hospitals losers, for-profits winners, under Rick Scott’s alternative LIP proposal

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The state’s largest teaching hospitals would see a $200 million reduction in Medicaid payments under a proposal Gov. Rick Scott has floated to the federal government in hopes of keeping Florida’s supplemental Medicaid funds at a full $2 billion. Conversely, the for-profit facilities would gain the most under the proposal being advanced by Scott, the former chief executive officer of the nation’s largest hospital chain. According to spreadsheets distributed by the governor’s office, Scott’s reworked spending formula would mean deep reductions…

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House leadership takes anti-Medicaid message to the Internet

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As the lawmakers prepare to return to Tallahassee for a budget and healthcare special session, House leadership has prepared a 60-second Internet ad warning viewers that the same lobbyists and corporate hospital executives that “pushed Obamacare through Congress” want to expand Medicaid in Florida. The simple, animated video features reds and blues, playing off colors in the Obamacare logo. It’s paid for by Florida Roundtable, a political committee for House Budget Chairman state Rep. Richard Corcoran. Corcoran is a leading…

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