Gardiner's Agenda On Disabilities Mostly Dies With House Exit
With the session over amid an impasse over the budget, everything else that lawmakers were working on -- but hadnt quite finished -- will never get finished. Things like water policy, a gaming...
View ArticleWhat The Budget Standoff In Tallahassee Means For Florida
House Speaker Steve Crisafulli surprised lawmakers Tuesday when he abruptly adjourned the chamber three days before the legislative session was scheduled to end. He did so because the House and Senate...
View ArticleCitizens Weigh In On Low Income Pool
Florida officials have a new proposal to try and keep $2.2 billion federal health fund for the uninsured. The Low Income Pool, or LIP, reimburses hospitals for the care of uninsured patients. The new...
View ArticleScott Heads To Washington To Talk LIP Funding
Setting off for Washington, D.C., to meet with federal officials over health-care money at the heart of a state budget crisis, Gov . Rick Scott on Tuesday flatly ruled out a Senate plan to extend...
View ArticleNo Agreement Between Scott, Feds On Medicaid
Florida Republican Gov. Rick Scott says he and the Obama administration are still far apart on health care financing issues that have paralyzed the state's efforts to pass a new budget. After meeting...
View ArticleScott Names Hospital Panel Without Hospital Executives
Gov. Rick Scotts plan to audit hospitals around the state is coming together. Hes just selected nine people to serve on his hospital funding board. Lynn Hatter reports that this comes as the state...
View ArticleFL Could Get Low Income Pool Funds
The Obama administration has made an offer that it hopes will resolve Florida’s $1 billion state budget stalemate over health care funds for poor people. Federal health officials agreed to extend...
View ArticleFed Word On LIP Gives Session New Focus
For weeks now, one question has hovered over Tallahassee: How will the House and Senate resolve their differences on health care funding and wrap up a special session --- scheduled to begin Monday ---...
View ArticleLawmakers Agree on LIP Funding
Florida legislators racing against the clock on a new state budget struck a deal Friday on a $2 billion plan to steer money to more than 200 hospitals that treat large numbers of low-income patients....
View ArticleScott Scraps 'LIP' Injunction Bid
Pointing to a budget agreement reached by lawmakers, Gov . Rick Scott's attorneys late Tuesday withdrew a request for a preliminary injunction in a legal battle with the Obama administration about...
View ArticleFlorida, Feds Reach 2-Year LIP Extension
The Obama administration and the state have reached an agreement to continue funding the hospital Low-Income Pool for two more years but at a much lower cost. Tuesday’s announcement says the state will...
View ArticleReports Say Thousands Of Jobs Will Be Lost When Health Care Funding Drops
Last year, lawmakers in Tallahassee fought over how to fund health care for uninsured Floridians. Now two new reports say county leaders are the ones who really need to be concerned. Funding for...
View ArticleLawmakers Agree On 'LIP' Hospital Funding
Facing a nearly $400 million cut in the coming fiscal year, House and Senate budget negotiators late Monday agreed on a plan for divvying up money in the Low Income Pool program, which helps pay for...
View ArticleHealth Care Money Gives Boost To State Budget
As they worked to craft the state's next budget, Florida lawmakers got some unexpected helpWednesday: hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for hospitals that could free up state money to...
View ArticleDetails Still Being Worked Out On ‘LIP’ Program
Saying only the "number is final," Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Justin Senior said Thursday that details still need to be finalized about how Florida can use $1.5 billion in funding...
View ArticleToo Soon To Say How Much LIP Money Will Smooth Budget Negotiations
The infusion of 1.5 billion dollars in the state budget to help cover health care for low income Floridians could go a long way toward bridging the divide between the House and Senate spending plans.
View Article‘LIP’ Money May Be Closer To $1 Billion
While Gov. Rick Scott's administration has reached agreement with the federal government on as much as $1.5 billion for the Low Income Pool program, the actual amount going to hospitals in the coming...
View ArticleFL Legislative Debrief: Health Care Issues
A dispute over cuts to hospitals is one of the reasons Florida lawmakers had to postpone their final votes on the new state budget to this week. It was finally approved and sent to Governor Rick Scott,...
View ArticleManaged Care Extension, LIP Money Approved
Dealing with two major issues in Florida's health-care system, federal officialsThursdayapproved a five-year extension of a statewide Medicaid managed care program and finalized a $1.5 billion pot of...
View ArticleHospitals Unlikely To Get All Of $1.5B in LIP Funding For Charity Care
Florida hospitals recently learned that an agreement between the state and federal governments will provide them with up to $1.5 billion to cover care for people who can’t pay. But local governments...
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