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Janelle Irwin TaylorSeptember 17, 2018

Health care companies are venturing into the world of transportation. Two such Tampa Bay area enterprises contributed a combined $175,000 to the All for Transportation campaign pushing for a 1 percent sales tax increase to fund sweeping transportation and transit enhancements. Bay Care Health Systems cut a $50,000 check to the referendum campaign. House of […]

Staff ReportsOctober 20, 2016

Jim Burkhart, president and CEO of Tampa General Hospital, has been elected chairman of the Florida Hospital Association‘s board of trustees. The selection took place Thursday at the association’s annual meeting in Orlando. Burkhart succeeds Mark Faulkner, president and CEO of Baptist Health Care Pensacola. “It is a privilege to chair the association on behalf of more than 200 Florida hospitals and […]

Christine Jordan SextonJune 15, 2015

The “Spotlight Transparency Tour” starts in Tampa on Wednesday with at least two local hospital executives and Marty Makary, medical doctor and author of Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care, slated to address Gov. Rick Scott‘s blue ribbon commission on the subject. Makary, associate professor of health policy […]

Mitch PerryMay 20, 2015

As state lawmakers prepare to complete their unfinished business in a Special Session next month, among the Legislature’s most important members said Wednesday he’s not exactly sure what to expect. The 120-member Legislature returns to Tallahassee in 12 days to hammer out a budget agreement. “We really don’t know how this is going to play […]

Christine Jordan SextonMarch 23, 2015

In hopes of hanging on to a $2 billion pool of supplemental Medicaid dollars the state uses to help fund hospitals, federally qualified health centers, HMOs and other parts of Florida’s health care delivery system, the Senate late last week proposed a new plan that it hopes the federal government will approve. So, just how […]

Christine Jordan SextonMarch 9, 2015

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Behind the scenes of a looming budget stalemate it turns out Florida and officials of the federal government are negotiating a revamped funding formula for hospitals that could cause a dramatic change of fortune for them. Florida has already been told it won’t receive the more than $1 billion in federal aid it has been […]

Mitch PerryMarch 5, 2015

One argument used consistently the past three years by House Republicans in Florida over why they’ve rejected Medicaid expansion is that they say the federal government will renege on its financial promises. The Obama administration has said that any state that accepts Medicaid funding to help insure more people under the Affordable Care Act will […]

Christine Jordan SextonFebruary 24, 2015

A decision by the Agency for Health Care Administration to award a new hospice program in Hillsborough County to a hospital-affiliated hospice program could draw a challenge from the longstanding existing provider, LifePath, if a Christmas Eve letter to the state is any indication. Nine applications were submitted to provide new hospice services in Hillsborough […]

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 […]

Mitch PerryDecember 12, 2014

For the first time in four years, non-charter public schools in Florida received a relatively substantial amount of funding from the Florida Legislature this year towards the maintenance of school buildings. In 2011 & 2012, all of the monies allocated by Tallahassee allocated to the Public Education Capital Outlay (PECO) trust fund went to charter […]

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Crowds gather to see Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. (Gabrielle Russon)

Hillsborough transit tax campaign funding approaches $1M

Jim Burkhart takes over as FHA chairman

Physician-writer to help debut health care panel’s traveling “transparency tour”

Tom Lee on Tallahassee budget impasse: “We don’t know how this is going to play out”

How do hopsitals fare under new Senate plan? Check and see ….

Some hospitals lose, some win under possible LIP revamp

In St. Pete, Rick Scott expresses frustration with the feds over LIP program funding

Is CON challenge imminent in Hillsborough?

$2 billion in health care funding at risk

MaryEllen Elia & Judy Genshaft discuss priorities at Hillsborough Legislative Delegation meeting