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Christine Jordan SextonApril 16, 2015

Borrowing the governor’s often-used slogan “let’s get to work” House Democrats on Thursday said it’s time for House Republicans and Gov. Rick Scott to work on finding a solution to the impasse on health care that has brought the 2015 legislative session to a grinding halt. At an early morning press conference on Thursday House […]

Christine Jordan SextonApril 16, 2015

Jeb Bush‘s former health care czar said Florida should take the Medicaid expansion dollars to provide health care access to the poor. However, in a FaceBook post former Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Alan Levine also said he thought the federal government was “overplaying its hand in Florida” by threatening to end the supplemental […]

Bruce RitchieApril 15, 2015

There has been no action publicly in the Legislature this week on Amendment 1 spending or bills dealing with water policy but those issues are being worked on, Sen. Tom Lee, the Senate’s chief budget writer, said Wednesday. Amendment 1 is the water and land conservation funding initiative approved by voters in November. The measure is expected […]

Christine Jordan SextonApril 15, 2015

The Senate Ethics and Elections Committee voted 8-1 to approve Liz Dudek‘s appointment as head of the state Agency for Health Care Administration but only after she answered more than an hour’s worth of questions regarding Low Income Pool funding, Medicaid expansion and how negotiations are evolving with the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. […]

Christine Jordan SextonApril 15, 2015

One day after receiving a letter from the federal government advising that uncompensated care pools were not a wise use of federal tax payer dollars, Florida’s leading Medicaid official fired off a letter Wednesday to the Department of Health and Human Services accusing the federal government of coercing Florida into expanding its Medicaid program. The […]

Christine Jordan SextonApril 15, 2015

Six Republicans in Florida’s congressional delegation sent a letter to the acing director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on April 14 saying that supplemental Medicaid funding should not be held “hostage” for a statewide expansion of Medicaid. The letter — singed by US Senator Marco Rubio and Congressman Gus Bilirakis, Congressman Curt […]

Christine Jordan SextonApril 15, 2015

The session-long drama over health care and Medicaid expansion may peak today when a Senate panel considers the confirmation of Liz Dudek, the head of the agency that oversees Medicaid. Dudek rolled through a previous committee stop, but a flurry of finger-pointing regarding negotiations between the federal government and the state over the last two […]

Christine Jordan SextonApril 14, 2015

What started out smoothly a few months ago now appears to be falling apart as leading Republicans in the House and Senate began finger-pointing over a health care dispute that appears likely to derail the 2015 session. The latest evidence that the May 1 session will not end on time came after the Department of […]

Christine Jordan SextonApril 14, 2015

The federal government on Tuesday sent a letter Deputy Medicaid Director Justin Senior saying that expanding Medicaid to low income uninsured Floridians is a better use of tax dollars than establishing Medicaid supplemental spending formulas such as the Low Income Pool. Department of Health and Human Services Acting Director Vikki Wachino said in the letter […]

Christine Jordan SextonApril 10, 2015

Elizabeth “Liz” Dudek, a longtime state health care planner and administrator and now head of the state’s Medicaid agency, will appear before the Senate Ethics and Elections Committee when it meets Wednesday. Though it’s Dudek’s second step in the Senate confirmation process, it’s the first time she’ll appear before the Senate since her boss, Gov. […]

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House Dems say “Let’s get to work” on Medicaid expansion

Former Jeb Bush health care czar says he’d expand Medicaid coverage

Amendment 1, water spending work going on, Tom Lee says

Senate grills, then confirms, AHCA Secretary Liz Dudek

Top Medicaid official warns feds not to “coerce” state into expansion

Congressional Republicans send letter to to Feds: Don’t hold LIP hostage

Florida’s health care chief on hot seat as Senate considers her confirmation

House, Senate, feds stick to guns on Medicaid as session slips away

Feds to Florida: Medicaid expansion is better use of tax dollars

Ethics and Elections considers Liz Dudek’s confirmation next week