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Christine Jordan SextonFebruary 17, 2015

He didn’t answer follow up questions from reporters, but Eliot Fishman, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services director of the Children and Adults Health Programs Group, did talk at length about Medicaid and the Florida experience during his keynote address at the the 2015 Health Care Affordability Summit hosted by the Foundation of Associated Industries […]

Christine Jordan SextonFebruary 10, 2015

A $2.2 billion pot of money that Florida uses to help reimburse hospitals for treating the poor as well as to train physicians expires at the end of June and won’t be extended, a high-ranking federal official said in Orlando on Tuesday. “There’s not going to be an extension of LIP this year,” Eliot Fishman […]

Christine Jordan SextonFebruary 10, 2015

A $2.2 billion pot of money that Florida uses to help reimburse hospitals for treating the poor as well as to train physicians expires at the end of June and won’t be extended, a high-ranking federal official said in Orlando on Tuesday. “There’s not going to be an extension of LIP this year,” Eliot Fishman […]

Christine Jordan SextonFebruary 10, 2015

Day 2 of the Health Care Affordability Summit in Orlando is slated for only half a day but the lineup packs a punch. Here are three things to look for: A discussion on the future of the $2 billion Low Income Pool. The keynote address will be delivered by Elliot Fishman, director of the Children […]

Christine Jordan SextonJanuary 29, 2015

Florida Gov. Rick Scott released his $77 billion proposed budget for fiscal year 2015-16 on Wednesday that is built in part on the assumption that Florida will receive $2 billion in federal health care dollars to help treat the poor and underinsured, mostly at Florida hospitals. Addressing a group of reporters at The Associated Press […]

Christine Jordan SextonJanuary 15, 2015

The state of Florida was given four recommendations on how it could replace upward of $2 billion in health-care funding if the so-called “low income pool” were to expire at the end of June, as anticipated. The recommendations — which include, among other things, increasing the Public Medical Assistance Trust Fund assessment paid on hospital […]

Christine Jordan SextonJanuary 8, 2015

Two billion dollars used to fund health care in Florida is at risk of being eliminated if the federal government doesn’t agree to extend a pool of money used to help fund health care for low income Floridians. Authority for the Low Income Pool expires June 30 and renewal negotiations with the federal government to […]

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His words: Recording of Eliot Fishman’s remarks on LIP and Medicaid waiver

Federal government won't extend $2 billion in Low Income Pool funding

Federal government won’t extend $2 billion in Low Income Pool funding

3 things to look for on Day 2 of Health Care Affordability Summit

Rick Scott builds health care budget with $2 billion in money that may not be there

Report: No option as good for Florida hospitals as LIP

$2 billion in health care funding at risk