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Some hospitals lose, some win under possible LIP revamp

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Behind the scenes of a looming budget stalemate it turns out Florida and officials of the federal government are negotiating a revamped funding formula for hospitals that could cause a dramatic change of fortune for them. Florida has already been told it won’t receive the more than $1 billion in federal aid it has been getting as part of the Low Income Pool (LIP) program. The program is a pot of supplemental Medicaid dollars, mostly money collected from local taxpayers…

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In St. Pete, Rick Scott expresses frustration with the feds over LIP program funding

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One argument used consistently by House Republicans in Florida over the past three years to explain why they’ve rejected Medicaid expansion is that they say the federal government will renege on its financial promises. The Obama administration has said that any state that accepts Medicaid funding to help insure more people under the Affordable Care Act will have the first three years of the program paid for exclusively by the feds, with the state having to chip in just 10…

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