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- Doctor wrote 1,000 scripts/week
- Medics overwhelmed by injured
- Insurers, state reach pact on cancer
- Jackson Health names new COO
- County, hospitals fight over billing
- Drug makers in on evaluation
- Jackson stops dialysis for poor
- 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
| Doctor wrote 1,000 scripts/week Posted: By Carol Gentry 1/15/2010 © Health News Florida Since 2004, a Miami psychiatrist has prescribed almost 14 million pills to Medicaid patients at a cost to taxpayers of $43 million, a feverish pace of 1,000 prescriptions a week. A state senator says the doctor should be the "poster boy for tougher enforcement actions." |
| Posted: 1/14/2010 © New York Times First aid responders and doctors tried to triage the massive number of injured in Haiti as the death toll estimate rose to 45,000. They didn't even have aspirin, much less anesthesia. |
| Insurers, state reach pact on cancer Posted: 1/13/2010 © Health News Florida The state’s largest insurance companies on Wednesday said they have signed a voluntary pact committing them to cover routine medical treatments for cancer patients who enroll in clinical trials. |
| Posted: 1/13/2010 © Miami Herald David R. Small arrives from a similar post in Chicago to help stimulate Miami-Dade's beleaguered safety-net system. Jackson officials also said the process is well under way to have three systems pay for one month of dialysis for 40-some patients. |
| County, hospitals fight over billing Posted: 1/13/2020 © Sarasota Health News A financial dispute between three Sarasota County hospitals and the county government has triggered a lobbying battle over the laws creating Sarasota Memorial Hospital and its tax authority. Three for-profit facilities -- Doctors Hospital of Sarasota, Englewood Community Hospital and Venice Regional Medical Center -- bill the county $37 million for their costs of caring for poor and uninsured patients since late 2008. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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