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- EMS duns slain woman's estate
- Medical home opens, charges $20 a visit
- Senate paging Dr. Welby
- Health rankings follow the money
- Could vaccine forms spook parents?
- Over-billing: just FL culture?
- Patients decry C-section rate
- State agencies on trial today
- Some defend DOH secrecy
| Posted: 5/12/2010 © Naples News After Mesac Damas killed his wife and 5 children, he fled to Haiti, leaving piles of unpaid bills. Now companies -- including Collier County EMS and NCH Healthcare System -- are trying to collect from his deceased wife's estate. |
| Medical home opens, charges $20 a visit Posted: 5/13/2010 © Orlando Sentinel Grace Medical Home in Orlando, holding its grand opening today, serves patients who make too much to qualify for Medicaid but too little to afford private insurance. The modest fees encourage regular visits to prevent or control chronic illness. |
| Posted: By Jim Saunders 2/19/2010 © Health News Florida As Florida lawmakers struggle to overhaul the Medicaid system, state Rep. Ed Homan describes the choice in stark terms: Expanding the controversial "reform" pilot or creating "medical homes," with primary-care doctors offering "Marcus Welby medicine." See also, "Living in a Medical Home." |
| Health rankings follow the money Posted: By David Gulliver 2/17/2010 © Health News Florida Florida’s richest counties tend to be healthiest, according to a nationwide study released this morning. A Health News Florida analysis found a strong statistical correlation between prevention -- lower smoking and obesity rates, access to doctors -- and good outcomes. |
| Could vaccine forms spook parents? Posted: By Jim Saunders 2/17/2010 © Health News Florida State Rep. Kevin Ambler says he wants to make sure parents have adequate information about vaccinations that children need to enroll in school. But doctors say it could scare parents away, leaving kids unprotected. |
| Over-billing: just FL culture? Posted: By Cynthia Washam 2/16/2010 © Health News Florida Brevard County’s largest medical group is close to settling a complaint that it overbilled Medicare $8 million by giving cancer patients more expensive treatments than they needed. Is this a case of fraud, as the Justice Department maintains, or an example of Florida's overheated style of medical treatment? |
| Posted: 2/12/2010 © Health News Florida Advocates for women's health are hosting a seminar today and Saturday on the alarming rate of unnecessary Cesarean sections in Miami, where the surgery accounts for more than half of births. Meanwhile, the Orlando Sentinel reports on another patient-education effort: on the dangers of MRIs for pacemaker patients. |
| Posted: By Sammy Mack 2/9/2010 © Health News Florida A landmark lawsuit that seeks to rewrite Florida's Medicaid policy resumed today in Miami, with plaintiffs charging that state agencies' low pay for doctors and dentists and tendency to switch plans without notice often leave children with no access to care. A related story in Florida Today shows the struggle of dentists who take Medicaid. |
| Posted: By Carol Gentry 2/8/2010 © Health News Florida The state Department of Health's decision to withhold information on its consumer web site about pending actions against health professionals -- including arrests --- is entirely appropriate, say attorneys who defend doctors. The public's reaction was different. As one woman said, "I was horrified." |
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