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Rick Scott’s Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding not happy with lack of responses from hopsitals

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Members of Rick Scott’s blue-ribbon healthcare commission were swimming in data, but on Wednesday members made clear that they wanted additional information and took aim at hospitals for not voluntarily providing all the information that was requested of them. Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding member Marili Cancio Johnson asked the commission staff to compile a list of hospitals that didn’t respond to the voluntary data call and, moreover, asked staff to identify how much Medicaid and Low Income Pool…

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For-profit hospitals ask Gov. Rick Scott to raise their taxes

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The for-profit hospital chain Hospital Corporation of America is asking Gov. Rick Scott to raise taxes on hospitals. Presidents from the four HCA hospital regions in Florida sent a letter to Scott regarding the  Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding saying that the Low Income Pool is not a long- term solution and that Scott consider increasing a tax hospitals currently pay and putting the new revenue into an increase in hospital base rates. Current base rates are insufficient to…

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Agencies respond to Rick Scott’s request for critical needs

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Florida agencies responded to Gov. Rick Scott‘s call to identify critical needs that may be jeopardized if the state’s budget expires this summer, including processing $152 million in child support services a month, ensuring uninterrupted supervision of incarcerated individuals and selling Lottery tickets. From the Office of Insurance Regulation to the Department of Management Services to the Division of Emergency Management, agencies submitted their lists to the governor identifying what services would be eliminated. The Fish and Wildlife Commission advised…

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Hospitals tell Rick Scott in a draft letter: Don’t tax us

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The Florida Hospital Association has a message for Gov. Rick Scott: Don’t inrease our taxes. In a May 18 two-page draft letter, the association has written the governor a letter making clear that the hospitals don’t believe a way to plug the loss of the federal Low Income Pool program is through a tax on their revenues. LIP is a $2.2 billion program of supplemental Medicaid payments made mostly to hospitals and funded mostly through county dollars as well as…

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House, Senate call special session and it’s wide open on health care, budget

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Nine days after announcing the dates the Florida Legislature issued the proclamation for the special session. The call is wide open, including Medicaid expansion, elimination of certificate of need law, direct primary care, state group health insurance changes and the budget and conforming bills and tax relief. As previously announced the session will run from June 1-20. “At this time, budget allocations have not been agreed to by the President and the Speaker, but will be reached before the beginning…

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What will Rick Scott do with the base budget he’s developing?

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Gov. Rick Scott sent a memo to his agencies on Thursday asking them to compile a list of services people cannot lose and identifying what would be funded in a pared back budget he’s developing for the upcoming year. Scott has refused to directly answer, though, whether he’ll be submitting the information he compiles with the Florida Legislature for consideration when it goes into a special budget session, now tentatively scheduled for  June 1-20. “The Legislature drafts the budget, but this…

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Hospitals, HMOs asked to give Rick Scott’s commission info about finances, employees, top procedures and costs

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To prepare for the first meeting of the Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding  next week in Tallahassee Gov. Rick Scott sent Florida hospitals and HMOs a letter requesting they provide detailed information about their finances in a form provided to them by the government. Hospitals are being asked to provide information between 2006 and 2013 as well data on the 10 leading inpatient, outpatient and emergency department procedures performed at their hospitals and the prices for those procedures. HMOs are being…

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