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Christine Jordan SextonApril 30, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott unveiled what appears to be an ambitious health care agenda he plans on tackling before July 1. Although the governor didn’t have a health care agenda going into the 2015 session, Scott announced one in a news release Thursday. He vowed to develop a Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding that will, […]

Christine Jordan SextonApril 25, 2015

The House and Senate exchanged and rejected budget offers on Friday and with one week left in the Session the two chambers continue to disagree over how to finance health care and whether 800,000 working Floridians should receive health care access. House Speaker Steve Crisafulli said if the chambers cannot find a “reasonable approach to […]

Christine Jordan SextonApril 24, 2015

The Florida Senate has not backed off its position that working uninsured Floridians need to have access to health insurance and that the Medicaid supplemental program known as Low Income Pool should remain intact. In a counteroffer to the House’s offer to put $200 million into health care financing the Senate held firm on its […]

Christine Jordan SextonApril 9, 2015

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At the final regularly scheduled meeting of the 2015 session for his committee, House Health & Human Services Committee Chairman Jason Brodeur dropped a bomb. He announced that the chamber next year would tackle some of the thorniest issues in health care: certificate of need (CON), insurance mandates and medical malpractice. The news puts most […]

Christine Jordan SextonFebruary 24, 2015

A decision by the Agency for Health Care Administration to award a new hospice program in Hillsborough County to a hospital-affiliated hospice program could draw a challenge from the longstanding existing provider, LifePath, if a Christmas Eve letter to the state is any indication. Nine applications were submitted to provide new hospice services in Hillsborough […]

Christine Jordan SextonFebruary 20, 2015

The state on Friday approved certificate of needs for 34 providers to operate 2,613 nursing home beds, rehab centers and hospices in 25 different counties across the state. The beds are the first new nursing home beds the state has approved in 14 years since implementing a moratorium in 2001. The beds are being built […]

Christine Jordan SextonFebruary 3, 2015

Three hospitals are in the running to offer comprehensive medical rehabilitation services in central Florida by 2020 even though the state has announced no new beds are needed. The Agency for Health Care Administration announced on Tuesday it has accepted letters of intent from North Florida Regional Medical Center in Alachua County, North Brevard County […]

Christine Jordan SextonOctober 30, 2014

The number of investors expected to compete for 3,115 new nursing home beds and hospice programs is expected to “significantly” increase in the next week. Investors will have until the close of business Nov. 5 to notify the state Agency for Health Care Administration in writing of their interest to compete for beds in more […]

Tag: certificate of need

Rick Scott’s agenda: A no-LIP budget, end of certificates of need

Offers fly but still no budget agreement

Senate counters House with Medicaid expansion; other health care items may be in play

House will tackle certificate of need, malpractice in 2016, Jason Brodeur says

Is CON challenge imminent in Hillsborough?

And the winners are? Agency OKs 2,613 new nursing home, hospice, rehab beds

Three hospitals want to offer rehab beds in C. Fla. but none show an interest in child psych or NICU beds

More investors expected to compete for new nursing home beds and hospice programs