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Budget details emerge after top lawmakers meet informally in Tallahassee

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After an acrimonious and abrupt ending to this year’s session, Florida legislative leaders are beginning to finally piece together a framework for a new state budget and avoid a possible state government shutdown. Some of that framework was discussed in an all-day meeting Wednesday between state Sen. Tom Lee and state Rep. Richard Corcoran. Gov. Rick Scott for more than a week has pushed the idea of a “base” continuation budget but Senate Appropriations Chairman Lee told Florida Politics on Wednesday night that…

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Top Florida legislators work on budget deal

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Although no deal was reached, Sen. Tom Lee, a Brandon Republican, said that a “fair amount of progress” was made during the discussions between the House and Senate budget chiefs at the Capitol. “It was super productive,” said Rep. Richard Corcoran, a Land O’Lakes Republican. “I think today we moved the ball down the field tremendously. We are moving to resolution.” The pressure is mounting for legislators to reach a budget deal. State government could be shut down if a…

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GAO report calls for more transparency with Medicaid 1115 waivers

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The Department of Health and Human Services needs to be more transparent when it comes to approving sweeping Medicaid 1115  Demonstration waivers, a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office asserts. The 69-page GAO report recommends increased transparency in the management of billions dollars spent on health care. It says the Department of Health and Human Services should put in writing its  criteria for assessing whether Medicaid 1115 waivers are likely to promote the objectives of the  Medicaid program. The…

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Rick Scott goes to Washington to talk LIP (again) as hospitals prepare for austere year

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As the rhetoric around Medicaid funding grows louder Florida hospitals, caught in a Medicaid financing war between the state and federal government, are beginning to brace for what a pared-back, austere budget might mean. On Tuesday Scott met with members of the Florida Congressional Delegation to update them on Florida’s “battle” with the administration over Low Income Pool funding, according to a press release issued by Gov. Rick Scott‘s office. LIP are supplemental Medicaid dollars made possible by a Medicaid…

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Rick Scott’s profit-sharing idea not getting love from the Legislature or the hospitals

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Gov. Rick Scott’s idea that Florida hospitals share profits to brace for the loss of Low Income Pool dollars is not being warmly received by the the Legislature, which is in charge of allocating Medicaid dollars. House Speaker Steve Crisafulli said in a statement on Monday that there are “other solutions available that do not include a hospital profit share plan,” when asked about Scott’s proposal. Senate President Andy Gardiner has no comment on the proposal at this time, spokesperson Katie Betta said…

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David Simmons calls Senate health plan ‘a path to Medicaid extinction’

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State Sen. David Simmons on Tuesday sent a memo to Florida lawmakers along with an opinion column he wrote for the Orlando Sentinel calling the Senate’s proposal to expand health care a “path to Medicaid extinction.” In his memo, Simmons said there are “many misconceptions about the Senate’s healthcare plan,” and attached his op-ed piece that was published May 10. The first four paragraphs of the op-ed describe a parade of horribles that beset the Medicaid program. It is based on the “fatally flawed…

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Rick Scott tells FOX News that Florida will have a continuation budget; will deal with health care impasse in January

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Rick Scott made an appearance on FOX News Monday night explaining why he flip-flopped on Medicaid expansion and said he was going “to do the right things to drive healthcare costs down.” Scott told FOX’s Greta Van Susteren that he went from supporting Medicaid expansion in 2013 when his mother died to opposing it in 2015 because the potential financial impact it will have when the government stops fully paying for it. “I will not stand in the way of the…

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