Category: Health Care Battle
Four Panhandle hospitals make top 50 list of highest charging hospitals
Health Affairs published yesterday a study that lists the 50 U.S. hospitals that charge the most. The study used 2012 Medicare data to examine hospitals…
Questions raised as children moved out of health program
By MARGIE MENZEL THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA The state last month removed about 2,000 children from a specialized program that provides services to medically…
House, Senate agree on LIP total
By BRANDON LARRABEE THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA After months of federal negotiations and proposals floated by Gov. Rick Scott, the House and the Senate,…
Judge Rodgers to hear Scott LIP lawsuit
Chief U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers will hear arguments June 19 in a lawsuit filed by Gov. Rick Scott against the federal government in…
Deja vu: House set to defeat Senate Health Plan
By BRANDON LARRABEE THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA Despite several changes made in recent days to assuage the concerns of the Republican majority, the Florida…
No doubt Medicaid expansion will help low-income families
Gov. Rick Scott and his Agency for Health Care Administration might not know if the Senate’s FHIX and Medicaid expansion will help provide health care…
A Healthy Florida Works praises Senate for health care vote
A Healthy Florida Works Regarding the Florida Senate’s Passage of the FHIX Program “Florida’s business community called for action on our state’s health care crisis,…
Scott undermines Senate health care plan
Senate Appropriations Committee is tired of the games the Scott administration is playing in the legislative battle over health care. On Monday, state Medicaid director…
House, Senate still stuck in health debate
By BRANDON LARRABEE AND MARGIE MENZEL THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA A rare June special session began Monday with legislative leaders promising to get done…
Special Session begins today, health care opens spurring
How the state provides health care coverage for its low income families could be decided over the next 20 days as the Florida Legislature hammers…
BTW HCA gave $100k to Scott PAC
HCA, the for-profit health care system that stands to make $72 million under AHCA’s proposed LIP/Medicaid plan, donated $100,000 to Governor Rick Scott’s political committee…
HCA stands to make $71 million from Scott LIP funding and Medicaid plan
According to the plan on new LIP funding and Medicaid rates developed by the Gov. Rick Scott’s administration, HCA, his former for-profit health care company…
Americans for Prosperity attack Senate LIP plan
Americans for Prosperity, conservative political advocacy groups established by David and Charles Koch, released a new ad today to fight the Florida Senate’s plan to…
Baptist, Sacred Heart and Santa Rosa Medical will lose nearly $2.5 million under Scott LIP replacement plan
Governor Rick Scott is still going after hospitals. Of Pensacola’s three hospitals, West Florida Hospital is the only one that will benefit from his proposed…
League asks state lawmakers to give up their health insurance until statewide plan approved
The League of Women Voters of Florida State president Pamela Goodman yesterday challenged Florida lawmakers to suspend their state-paid subsidized health care coverage–for which they…
Amended Senate health care plan for the uninsured not welcomed by Scott and House
The Florida Senate’s FHIX (Florida Health Insurance Affordability Exchange) is not getting much praise from Gov. Rick Scott and Florida House Speaker Steve Crisafulli. Senate…
Florida Senate offers health care compromise
Senate President Andy Gardiner sent out today a press release on an amended Florida Health Insurance Affordability Exchange – a key component of the Senate’s…
Federal LIP offer may help impasse
A day after receiving word that Florida likely will receive about $1 billion next year for a key health-care program, House Speaker Steve Crisafulli, R-Merritt…
Breaking news: Feds offer state $1 billion in LIP funds
State Senator Don Gaetz (R-Niceville) stopped by the Inweekly offices and reported that the federal government this morning has offered to fund $1 billion for…
Hospital panel probably will have little impact on session
By BRANDON LARRABEE THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA With the Legislature set to meet in less than two weeks to begin hammering out a final…
