Christine Jordan SextonDecember 2, 2021
7min1731
Similar programs in Texas were rejected.
Tag: Medicaid 1115 waiver
Christine Jordan SextonDecember 2, 2021
Staff ReportsJanuary 4, 2017
3min374
Florida has asked the federal government for a five-year extension of a waiver that allows it to provide Medicaid services through a managed care program. Gov. Rick Scott filed the state’s application on Friday, seeking to extend the program through June 30, 2022. The program would remain essentially the same. “The demonstration objectives and the […]
Christine Jordan SextonMay 8, 2015
4min165
One day after leaving Washington, D.C., with no promises the federal government will extend Medicaid supplemental funding to the state for another year, Gov. Rick Scott‘s attorneys filed an injunction in his lawsuit against the Obama administration. On the surface, the filing asks the court to issue a preliminary injunction or to support a writ […]
Christine Jordan SextonApril 30, 2015
5min351
Supplemental Medicaid funding and whether Florida should expand health care access to 800,000 uninsured working Floridians was the issue that brought the 2015 session to a grinding halt. In Orlando, though, the issue of Low Income Pool funding and Medicaid expansion didn’t draw crowds as the Agency for Health Care Administration held the first of […]
Christine Jordan SextonApril 21, 20154min169
Florida’s budget showdown over hospital funding may not be resolved until midsummer thanks to a little-noticed series of deadlines that accompany the state’s official request to draw down billions in health care funding. The decision by the Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Liz Dudek on Monday to propose an amendment to the existing Medicaid waiver […]