On The Governor’s Budget
February 14, 2011- Given that Governor Rick Scott’s 2011-12 State budget recommendations called for a staggering $4.6 billion reduction in total State spending, it may seem surprising that he proposed...
View ArticleFact Check on Senate Bill 1972
April 25, 2011- Florida CHAIN evaluated the extent to which key claims made by Senate leaders to defend their proposed Medicaid overhaul (SB1972) have any link with reality. Click here to view 2 page...
View ArticleQ & A About CMS Letter and Its Implications for Florida
On April 28, 2011, a high-ranking official at the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sent a letter to the secretary of Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA). The...
View ArticleHealth Cuts and Spares in 2011- 2012 Budget
May 23, 2011- Here is another in a series of reports summarizing how Florida Medicaid and the State health care budget fared. In particular, we list ten areas where the Legislature somehow justified...
View ArticleThe Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year
July 11, 2011- In 2008, a group of uninsured low-income adults in Oregon was selected by lottery to be given the chance to apply for Medicaid. The lottery provides a unique opportunity to gauge the...
View ArticleProposed changes to Medicaid Reform pilot from federal CMS and what it means...
Click for the downloadable version: Summary of Federal CMS’ Proposed Changes to the Medicaid Reform Waiver and Implications for Florida’s New Statewide Medicaid Managed Care Experiment July 28, 2011-...
View ArticleSuspicions Confirmed: Access to Care Plummeted in Medicaid Reform...
Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy December 11, 2011- In the absence of patient encounter data for analysis, this report examines access to primary care in the Reform Pilot counties using...
View ArticleFlorida’s KidCare Toolbox
Read this report published by KidsWell Florida which consists of information about how kids currently access health care and practical ways to improve Florida’s KidCare program in order to cover more...
View ArticleFlorida Employers Will Benefit Immensely From Medicaid Expansion
Affordable Care Act opponents have expressed a desire to forego the opportunity to expand Medicaid, ostensibly out of concern for the perceived burden on the state budget and, by extension, on Florida...
View ArticleRejecting Medicaid Expansion Not an Option for Florida
Rejecting Medicaid expansion would have far-reaching and long-lasting adverse effects on Floridians and Florida’s economy. Click to read the considerations that should factor into the Governor’s and...
View ArticleRejection of Medicaid Expansion Would Prove Costly to Businesses
Many of the businesses that anchor the state’s service-based, tourist-dependent economy would be placed at a significant competitive disadvantage if Florida rejects Medicaid expansion. These include,...
View ArticleCMS response to Florida CHAIN letter expressing concerns regarding waiver
Click to read CMS’s April 3, 2012 response to Florida CHAIN’s letter expressing concerns regarding Florida’s 1915(b) and (c) waivers that, if approved, would create the Florida Long Term Care Managed...
View ArticleGeorgetown Report on Florida’s Long Term Care Medicaid Waiver
Click here to access Georgetown University’s January 2012 report on Florida’s Proposed Medicaid Long-Term Care changes. The post Georgetown Report on Florida’s Long Term Care Medicaid Waiver appeared...
View ArticleThe Pacific Health Group Report: Medicaid Managed Care Study
Click here to read the Pacific Health Group Medicaid Managed Care Study. Commissioned by the Florida House in 2010, this report is the basis for the Managed Care Waiver we now have in Florida. The post...
View ArticleLong Term Care Medicaid Waiver Contracts
Click here to view the American Elder Care Contract. This is the contract between American Elder Care and the Agency for Health Care Administration for Long Term Care Waiver Services for every region...
View ArticleUncovering Coverage Opportunities: Florida’s Health Insurance Marketplace
Beginning October 1, 2013, millions of Floridians who are uninsured – or who are insured but have inadequate or unaffordable coverage – will be able to purchase a health plan through the new Health...
View ArticleQue Hacer Si Usted No Puede Obtener Cobertura en el Mercado de Seguros Medicos
Pulse aqui para descubrir qué hacer si usted no puede obtener cobertura en el Mercado de Seguros Médicos The post Que Hacer Si Usted No Puede Obtener Cobertura en el Mercado de Seguros Medicos appeared...
View ArticleEssential Health Benefits Update and Advocacy Opportunities
Tweet On February 20, 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued regulations that finalized changes to the Essential Health Benefits (EHB) standard of the Affordable Care Act. The...
View ArticleEssential Health Benefits Overview
Tweet Introduced by the Affordable Care Act, Essential Health Benefits (EHB) are a set of ten health care service categories that certain health plans must cover. In February 2015, the U.S. Department...
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Opportunity Report: Health Coverage Plan Offers Better Health and Economic...
Tweet Despite the gains made in the years since the passage of the A ordable Care Act, Miami- Dade County continues to rank near the bottom, statewide, across several major indicators of health. e...
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