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- Senate overhauls Medicaid
- UM database to reveal doctor payments
- 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
- FL Medicare patients 'overserved'
| Posted: By Jim Saunders 4/1/2010 © Health News Florida Senate Republicans tossed a bomb into the debate about overhauling Medicaid on Wednesday, approving program caps, vouchers and a 19-county expansion. In the House, a committee took action that irked insurers and pleased doctors. |
| UM database to reveal doctor payments Posted: 4/1/2010 © Miami Herald As healthcare reform demands drug makers reveal how much they're paying doctors, UM announced a website detailing outside business relationships of its doctors. |
| 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: By Christine Jordan Sexton 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: By Christine Jordan Sexton 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: By Carol Gentry and Mary Jo Melone 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. |
| 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. |
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