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| Posted: 4/3/2009 © Health News Florida Florida pays managed-care plans $2.5 billion a year to make sure Medicaid patients in the state get proper preventive care and treatment. New data from 2008 show Florida plans' performance fell far below the national average, and near the bottom in care for infants, pregnant women and the mentally ill. |
| Gangrene case to be heard today Posted: By Christine Giordano 4/3/2009 © Health News Florida Fort Myers plastic surgeon Marc Schneider will come before the Florida Board of Medicine today to explain how one of his breast-reduction patients ended up with gangrene. |
| Reform could cost hospitals $4B Posted: 2/27/2009 © Florida Health News A former state health official says if Florida’s Medicaid Reform plan is expanded statewide it will cost hospitals nearly $4 billion a year in uninsured emergency-room visits and make it difficult for patients to get immediate treatment. |
| Crist wants to merge health agencies Posted: By Christine Jordan Sexton 2/25/2009 © Florida Health News Gov. Charlie Crist is reportedly preparing to recommend a merger of the two largest state health agencies into one, a proposal that would affect thousands of state employees. He also wants to keep Medicaid “Reform” unchanged and increase the fees doctors and HMOs get for treating the poor. |
| Local docs now part of drug trials Posted: 2/22/2009 © Palm Beach Post Twenty years ago most drug trials were done in academic medical centers. Today, doctors in the community are getting paid to do the trials, giving patients access to the newest medications. |
| Fairness to doctors or 'gag order' on patients? Posted: 2/13/2009 © Florida Health News Some Florida doctors now require patients to sign an agreement promising not to post Internet comments about them without permission. Some say it's "an attempt to steal the consumer's right to free speech," but doctors say it's a matter of fairness. |
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