Tag: low income pool

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Days after being advised that it could tentatively expect $1 billion in supplemental Medicaid funding the Gov. Rick Scott administration pushed for more than double that. Deputy Secretary for Medicaid Justin Senior sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services Director Victoria Wachino to use $1 billion in local money to match federal funds […]

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Northeast Florida’s largest public hospital and academic medical center sent Gov. Rick Scott a letter this week responding to his series of questions about the facility’s financial woes and why it has the dubious distinction of being most reliant on supplemental Medicaid dollars. University of Health Florida Jacksonville Chief Executive Officer Russell E. Armistead‘s letter includes […]

Phil AmmannMay 22, 2015
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Speaker Steve Crisafulli says the Florida House can start passing a budget in June, now that the state could receive disputed federal healthcare money this year. Thursday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) sent a letter to the state Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) indicating it will provide Low-Income Pool (LIP) funding for the […]

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Members of Rick Scott’s blue-ribbon health care commission swam  in data Wednesday, but they made clear they want more information and took aim at hospitals for not voluntarily providing all the information requested of them. Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding member Marili Cancio Johnson asked the panel’s staff to list hospitals that didn’t respond […]


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