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Drew WilsonDecember 9, 2020

Tiffany Vause is leaving the Department of Economic Opportunity to take the Deputy Chief of Staff position at the Agency for Health Care Administration. Vause is currently the Director of Communications and External Affairs at DEO, a position she has held since October 2017. “We are excited to welcome Tiffany Vause to AHCA as a […]

Wire ServicesJuly 22, 2020

Increased enrollment isn’t the only factor driving up costs.

Christine Jordan SextonFebruary 1, 2019

For those most part, the Ron DeSantis budget keeps the status quo for Medicaid.

Diane RobertsMay 11, 2016

You’d think that a state where they launch rockets into space, a state which houses the world’s most powerful superconducting magnets, a state with several perfectly good universities, would embrace science. Or at least not be so thoroughly hostile to it. But this is Rick Scott’s Florida, where there’s still legislative resistance to teaching evolution […]

Phil AmmannFebruary 25, 2016

The Senate Appropriations Committee approved Thursday several bills with some cost-saving measures for health providers. The bills now head to the Senate floor. LobbyTools is reporting on SB 1686, sponsored by Fernandina Beach Republican Sen. Aaron Bean, which will allow Florida’s health care practitioners to provide telehealth services. The bill creates a task force under the Agency […]

Guest AuthorDecember 21, 2015

As we enter into a holiday week many of us will be doing some last-minute shopping and many small business owners will keep their doors open and hope for shoppers to visit. Unfortunately, community pharmacies are going to lose this holiday season, because a large chunk of their patients will no longer be able to […]

Bill PrescottAugust 10, 2015

From the people determined to bring you Unplanned Parenthood, another fiesta of misogyny. On July 29, Rick Scott loudly announced investigations of Florida clinics that perform cancer screenings, HIV services, Pap tests, contraceptive care, stop-smoking programs, STD treatment, gynecological exams, and yes, abortions. The state Agency for Healthcare Administration cited four clinics: one for improper […]

Tag: Agency for healthcare administration

Personnel note: Tiffany Vause named Deputy Chief of Staff at AHCA

Mary Mayhew predicts ‘significant’ gap in Medicaid budget

Ron DeSantis goes light on Medicaid cuts

Diane Roberts: Bad science is not good for state’s waterways

Senate committee passes series of cost-saving health care proposals

Bill Mincy: Tell legislators to protect pharmacy choice

Diane Roberts: GOP takes its lady-parts jihad to Planned Parenthood