Guest AuthorApril 16, 2019
6min428
Getting older is inevitable but getting older without proper support is preventable.
Tag: LeadingAge Florida
Guest AuthorApril 16, 2019
Drew WilsonApril 2, 2019
4min516
“One year of adequate funding is simply not enough"
Jim RosicaMarch 27, 2019
5min753
The new group was rolled out at a Capitol press conference.
Scott PowersOctober 27, 2017
5min271
An administrative judge has struck down Gov. Rick Scott‘s emergency order that would have forced Florida’s nursing homes to install emergency generators immediately. Administrative Law Judge Garnett Chisenhall ruled Friday that Scott’s administration failed to demonstrate that an emergency exists that would require an emergency order for the immediate installation of generators that could power […]
Gary FineoutSeptember 22, 2017
6min281
After 11 nursing home residents died in the sweltering heat of hurricane-induced power outages, Florida’s nursing home industry is now on a collision course with Gov. Rick Scott. Days after Hurricane Irma ravaged the state, Scott used his emergency powers to put in place new rules that require nursing homes and assisted living facilities to […]
Staff ReportsJune 19, 20174min431
Changes to how the state’s nursing that accept Medicaid are paid are coming down the pike. Gov. Rick Scott signed into law a wide-sweeping health care bill (SB 2514) last week that, among other things, moves the payment system to a cost-based system to a prospective payment system. The law delays the move from cost-based […]
Guest AuthorApril 5, 2017
7min225
Medicaid payment reform for nursing homes is both necessary and complex. And done well, it should be the result of clear policy objectives, careful consideration, vigorous debate and detailed modeling. On behalf of our 250 members across Florida, we encourage the Senate Appropriations Committee to ask tough questions and thoroughly vet the new nursing home […]
Staff ReportsMarch 29, 20176min256
Some feathers may have been ruffled in Wednesday’s Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, as the committee discussed, and later adopted, budget recommendations that will almost surely be included in the Senate’s budget. One big ticket item up for discussion was whether a plan, known as the prospective payment plan, that would fundamentally […]
Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterFebruary 15, 2017
5min327
The House Health Care Appropriation Subcommittee got the ball rolling on discussions about whether the state should change the way it pays nursing homes that accept Medicaid, with some members of the committee expressing concerns about parts of the plan. During the two-hour committee meeting Wednesday, the panel heard from Navigant officials about their proposed […]
Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterFebruary 15, 2017
8min499
Nursing homes that accept Medicaid could see changes in how they are paid in the coming fiscal year, but exactly what those changes will look like remain to be seen. The House Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee is expected to begin discussions about new payment plans Wednesday, when Agency for Health Care Administration officials give members […]