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Associated PressNovember 19, 2015

Florida hospitals paid for $1.5 billion in health costs for uninsured and underinsured patients last year. The Florida Hospital Association released its annual report Wednesday, noting it provided inpatient care for 2.7 million people and treated 9.5 million patients in emergency rooms in 2014. Hospitals contributed a total of $4.2 billion in community benefits, including […]

Guest AuthorNovember 2, 2015

If you believe that smoking cures cancer and rainfall is a fix for flooding, then Gov. Rick Scott has some health care proposals for you. Scott wants to foist a battery of new regulations onto about 129 hospitals across Florida in 2016 as a means of improving health care. He has proposed requiring them to […]

Guest AuthorNovember 1, 2015

If you believe that smoking cures cancer and rainfall is a fix for flooding, then Gov. Rick Scott has some health care proposals for you. Scott wants to foist a battery of new regulations onto about 129 hospitals across Florida in 2016 as a means of improving health care. He has proposed requiring them to […]

Marc YachtJune 17, 2015

The Florida House’s rejection of Medicaid expansion money affects more than just the poor. A recent Tampa Bay Times editorial outlined 25 reasons to accept the federal money. Because of House members’ rejection, 800,000 low-income Floridians are now shut out of health care coverage. Many working poor who now pay high premiums for Obamacare face […]

Christine Jordan SextonJune 10, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott vetoed a health care bill on Wednesday, though he signed many others into law. Below is a list of the bills and a brief description of what they do from the legislative bill analyses. HB 79 Creates the Crisis Stabilization Services Utilization Data Base and requires the Department of Children and Families to […]

Christine Jordan SextonJune 10, 2015

A House health care panel on Wednesday took up and passed six bills that, combined, leaders say will reduce the cost of health care and, in turn, increase access to doctors and services. The Health and Human Services Committee spent two hours hearing the bills, which range from establishing a new health care provider called […]

Christine Jordan SextonJune 9, 2015

During the contentious debate over Medicaid expansion top Republicans in the Florida House railed against hospitals as special interests and part of the “health care industrial complex.” Now the House is taking its battle against hospitals on multiple fronts, including trying to revive a little-noticed bill from the 2015 Regular session that cracks down on […]

Daniel TilsonJune 9, 2015

Shirley dragged long and hard on her lipstick-stained cigarette. She alternated between shaking and nodding her head while listening to new friend Toni talk trash about politicians. “They did it again, threw us under the bus. They don’t know us, they don’t give a damn about us, we’re just bugs on their windshield, that’s all, […]

Christine Jordan SextonJune 6, 2015

Budget conferees have agreed to target $400 million in recurring general revenue to hospitals and, as of Saturday morning, to not fund graduate medical education. Eliminating the funding — a $100 million concession for the Florida Senate — is a “work in progress” Sen. Rene Garcia said. Rep. Matt Hudson quickly agreed. “It’s certainly not off […]

Christine Jordan SextonJune 1, 2015

Former Senate President Don Gaetz spoke briefly with reporters after the Senate Health Policy Committee on Monday to say that unless the Legislature passes a plan to increase access to health care using federal Medicaid funding, it will be a tough legislative session for everyone. “There is no way that one particular group or one […]

Tag: hospitals

Florida hospitals say they spent $1.5B in charity care

Sarah Maricle Ayers: Rick Scott should stay out of hospitals’ business

Sarah Maricle Ayers: Rick Scott should stay out of hospitals’ business

Marc Yacht: Universal health care access must come to U.S.

Rick Scott approves a data base, more vaccines, and burial-transmit permits

House passes 6 health care disruption bills from committee

A $30 million hospital issue could get tucked into Medicaid conforming bill

Daniel Tilson: Florida's uninsured left standing in the shadow of hopelessness

Chambers agree to $400 million in general revenue to hospitals, zero for doctor training (for now)

Don Gaetz sees no one coming out of Special Session “covered in glory”