Florida's Medicaid Disaster: 1.3 Million Cut From Coverage, One of the Highest Disenrollment Rates in the U.S.
Florida saw a sharp drop in Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrollment, going from 5.1 million to 3.8 ...
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Florida Removes 1.3m People From Health Care Plan
Many of those kicked off Medicaid were still eligible, research indicates, and had their coverage removed for "procedural ...
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Florida bill impacting Medicaid, funding for families of medically fragile children
SB 391, which passed in 2023, allows parents and caregivers of children with chronic and complex medical needs to be paid a ...
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Florida home care law affects Medicaid, funding for families of medically fragile children
The 2023 law allows parents of children with chronic and complex medical needs to be paid to care for that child. However, it ...
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Attorney General’s Office secures $2.3M in multistate action from Pfizer-owned company
Florida's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit secured the win through a multistate action. "Actions, like those alleged here, must be ...
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CMS slashes ACA navigator program funding 90% to $10M
Funding for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) navigator program will get cut to just $10 million, the Centers for Medicare & ...
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Jason Weida is leaving post atop Florida's Medicaid agency to be DeSantis' chief of staff
After two years as secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration, Weida has been picked to succeed James Uthmeier, ...
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Florida Removes 1.3m People From Health Care Plan
Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrolment in Florida has fallen from 5.1 million to 3.8 million between March 2023 and October 2024, according to health care research non ...
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Dems Slamming Trump’s Spending Freeze Were Silent When Biden Weaponized Medicaid Against Red States
While several Democrats expressed outrage over the possibility that President Donald Trump’s temporary federal spending ...
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States absorb big increases in Medicaid for sicker-than-expected enrollees after COVID-19 pandemic
said the pandemic amounted to a “pause button” on improving the efficiency of the state’s Medicaid program because billions in federal aid helped pay for it. President Donald Trump’s first ...
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Jason Weida is leaving post atop Florida's Medicaid agency to be DeSantis' chief of staff
AHCA's primary responsibility is overseeing the state's Medicaid program. It also handles licensing for the state's health care facilities and the sharing of health care data for the purpose of ...