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Federal Officials Focus On Radiation Practices At Florida Clinic; Medical Scan Makers Announce New Efforts To Prevent Mistakes
Medicare regulations require that when patients receive some types of highly specialized cancer treatments, their radiation oncologist must be on site. But The New York Times reports that federal officials are investigating a Florida cancer clinic that billed Medicare for such treatments while the doctors were absent, sometimes on overseas trips…
Florida Faces Fight Over Medicaid Reform Expansion; In Kansas, Cuts Hurt A Mental Health Clinic
Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration may broaden that state’s Medicaid-reform pilot program to include 19 more counties to save more than $58 million by requiring Medicaid beneficiaries enroll in managed-care plans, Health News Florida reports. “Such an expansion could affect 375,000 people and save $58.7 million during the upcoming fiscal year…
State Round Up: Florida Considers Eliminating Popular Medicaid Plan; State Program For Low-Income Adults Changing In Minn.
Health News Florida: “This could be the year the state of Florida eliminates its popular MediPass program, which gives more than half a million Medicaid recipients, mostly aged and disabled Floridians, an alternative to HMOs. Hints of its demise showed up in the governor’s budget and letters from a powerful lawmaker…
Florida Officials Say It Would Be A Struggle To Meet Medicaid Costs Of Health Reform
News outlets report on a variety of health care issues at the state level including the cost of health care reform in Florida, widespread budget cuts in Nebraska, a hand-washing initiative in Maryland as well as some hospital and VA-related developments. The
Jury Rules For Florida Hospital That Deported Brain-Damaged Immigrant Patient
“In a benchmark case dealing with the obligations of hospitals toward uninsured illegal immigrants, a jury in Stuart, Fla., decided Monday that Martin Memorial Medical Center did not act unreasonably when it chartered a plane and repatriated a severely brain-injured Guatemalan patient against the will of his guardian,” The New York Times reports. The hospital “spent $1.
Costliest Medicare Markets In Florida, New York, California
U.S. News & World Report examines cost, frequency, and outcomes studies on Medicare patients from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice : “The Dartmouth research is particularly relevant to older Americans because it is based to a large extent on Medicare data, involving patients ages 65 and older.
Florida: Three Years In, Medicaid Experiment Tough To Measure
“Nearly three years into a Medicaid privatization program former [Florida] Gov. Jeb Bush said could be a national model, state officials say they do not have crucial data to measure the program’s effectiveness, including how many patients’ treatments and prescriptions have been approved or denied,” the AP/Miami Herald reports.
WellCare Agrees To Pay $80 Million To Settle Florida Medicaid, CHIP Fraud Charges
WellCare Health Plans has agreed to pay $40 million in restitution and $40 million in civil penalties to avoid criminal charges in Florida over alleged fraudulent payment practices to the state’s Medicaid and Healthy Kids programs, the
Florida House Passes Measure To Curb Medicaid, Medicare Fraud
The Florida House on Monday unanimously passed legislation that would increase licensing restrictions for certain health care service providers as a way to deter fraud in the Medicaid and Medicare programs, the Miami Herald reports. Under the bill, proposed by state Rep. David Rivera (R), people would have to live in the U.S.
WellCare Extends Coverage Deadline For Florida Medicaid Beneficiaries
Florida health officials and WellCare Health Plans have negotiated a deadline extension for more than 34,000 Medicaid beneficiaries in Duval County to find new coverage after the insurer announced two months ago that it was withdrawing from a Medicaid pilot program, the
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