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- Patient 'vegetative'? Maybe not
- Drug makers in on evaluation
- Jackson stops dialysis for poor
- Doctors: Downtown Orlando shooter ill
- Latest outrage: home-care scams
- Medicaid to launch huge data project
- Insurer rethinking rules after chat
- Ban balance-billing, advocate says
- Public option finds favor even in FL
- Public option on roll, but not here
- FL Medicare patients 'overserved'
- Doctor accused of fondling gives up license
- State clears doctors, parents protest
| Patient 'vegetative'? Maybe not Posted: 2/4/2010 © Washington Post New research shows some patients diagnosed as in a "vegetative state" actually have normal brain activity as measured by a functional MRI. The results inevitably raised questions about the controversial case five years ago of a Florida woman, Terri Schiavo. |
| Posted: 1/12/2009 © Palm Beach Post As a state committee prepares to meet Wednesday in Tampa to discuss medication for mental illness, drug companies are reaching out to the media and doctors to make their case. |
| Jackson stops dialysis for poor Posted: 1/7/2010 © Miami Herald Expecting to save $4.2 million, the financially strapped Jackson Health System has stopped paying for dialysis treatments for 175 poor patients with failing kidneys, leaving dozens of patients facing life-or-death situations. |
| Doctors: Downtown Orlando shooter ill Posted: 1/5/2010 © Orlando Sentinel Jason Rodriguez, accused of a recent shooting rampage in downtown Orlando, is mentally ill and out of touch with reality, doctors testified Monday. Rodriguez will be treated at a state hospital. |
| Latest outrage: home-care scams Posted: 12/7/2009 © Associated Press A new report says scams in Miami- Dade brought half a billion dollars in Medicare payments for home health-care into the county last year, more than the entire rest of the nation combined. Many "patients" got big-screen TVs or free maid service. |
| Medicaid to launch huge data project Posted: 11/13/2009 © Health News Florida Florida is preparing to make the health histories of more than 1 million Medicaid patients accessible to 80,000 doctors, clinics and hospitals in the state on a secured-access system, the project director said Thursday. The aims: improve patient care, avoid duplication. |
| Insurer rethinking rules after chat Posted: 11/4/2009 © Health News Florida Following a meeting with Sen. Don Gaetz, the state’s largest health insurer is examining its policies for providing health insurance to cancer patients who undergo clinical trials. |
| Ban balance-billing, advocate says Posted: 11/3/2009 © Health News Florida Sean Shaw, Florida's Insurance Consumer Advocate, is shopping around for a lawmaker brave enough to take on the medical lobby. He wants to outlaw balance-billing, a common practice that sticks patients with big bills their plan won't cover. |
| Public option finds favor even in FL Posted: 10/29/2009 © Miami Herald From the house staff at Jackson Memorial to the president-elect of the AMA, Florida doctors and nurses in quite different venues expressed support Wednesday for health-reform legislation that includes a public option, although there's disagreement on some details. |
| Public option on roll, but not here Posted: 10/27/2009 © Health News Florida As the public option gained momentum in Washington, Florida officials uniformly condemned it today. Gov. Charlie Crist said that his Cover Florida plan is "a better way to go" because it doesn't need tax support. Few have signed up. |
| FL Medicare patients 'overserved' Posted: 10/6/2009 © Fort Myers News-Press Every area of Florida except Daytona Beach and Tallahassee showed above-average billing for doctors' services in Medicare last year, according to a GAO report. The state was already a national outlier by 2000, yet recorded a big jump in billings per patient by 2008. |
| Doctor accused of fondling gives up license Posted: 10/2/2009 © Health News Florida A Bradenton woman who agreed to wear a wire into the office of the doctor she said sexually accosted her -- Bradenton internist Gangadhara Rao Chapalamadugu -- told the Board of Medicine today that Rao should go to jail, and board members agreed after seeing complaints from six other patients. But their jurisdiction involves only medical practice; they accepted voluntary relinquishment to keep him from ever practicing medicine in Florida again. |
| State clears doctors, parents protest Posted: 9/25/2009 © Health News Florida Two doctors who are being sued over the high-profile death of Boca Raton teen-ager Stephanie Kuleba will not have to worry about the Board of Medicine. Confidential state documents show the state dropped its investigation months ago, and that the girl's parents were turned away when they tried to offer evidence. |
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