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- Medicaid plan test gets mixed reviews
- FL shoulders heavy load for Haiti
- Haitian baby has surgery
- Grant to help fund prenatal care
- Uninsured Mexicans find care
- Cardiologists battle Medicare cuts
| Medicaid plan test gets mixed reviews Posted: 2/23/2010 © Florida Times-Union Florida’s Medicaid reform pilot project cut the size of some patients’ bills over its first two years compared with traditional Medicaid, a report found last year. But opponents say that much of that savings has been accomplished by insurance companies throwing up roadblocks in the claims-approval process, meaning many have to keep switching doctors. |
| FL shoulders heavy load for Haiti Posted: 2/23/2010 © USA Today Florida schools, hospitals and charity groups have been helping care for Haitians since Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake. The question now is how to pay for the influx of patients, students and orphans. And Orlando Health doctors saved a foot with reconstructive plastic surgery instead of amputation. |
| Posted: 2/3/2010 © USA Today Doctors performed lifesaving surgery on an 11-month-old Haitian boy with severe hydrocephalus to relieve pressure inside the baby's skull, ending an ethical debate in which some questioned whether there would be follow-up care available when the shunt gives out. Florida doctors who helped in Haiti are troubled by what lies ahead. "The earthquake was their 9/11," said Dr. Mark Atkinson of the University of Florida College of Medicine. |
| Grant to help fund prenatal care Posted: 2/2/2010 © Tallahassee Democrat Expecting mothers in four North Florida counties will be able to receive prenatal care through a $75,000 grant awarded to Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare by Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida. |
| Posted: 2/2/2010 © Orlando Sentinel When Josefina de la Rosa was diagnosed with cancer in 2007, she could not afford treatment. In stepped nonprofit Casa de Mexico, which finds doctors to help. |
| Cardiologists battle Medicare cuts Posted: 1/30/2010 © Miami Herald In a move to boost primary care doctors' pay, Medicare is trimming reimbursement for some cardiac services, prompting an outcry from cardiologists. A South Florida group filed a federal lawsuit and a bill to rescind the cuts has been filed in Congress. |
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