As I contunue to study the Medicaid Reform, I think there is a loss of understanding that Provider Service Networks are provider owned rather than an insurance company. The report states: Earlier studies by the same group did not discover “the relatively large savings” found in the new report, which was published in a health …
AP Reports. Results from a study of Florida’s Medicaid Reform Pilot Project show that provider service networks, which the state intends to implement this year throughout the state, control costs better than traditional Medicaid. PSNs, like HMOs, or health maintenance organizations, are managed care companies that coordinate patient care. HMOs deliver care through contracts with …
Prestige Wins Medicaid Contracts | Health News Florida. Health News Florida reports that Prestige has been awarded a contract to be an Medicaid managed care organization. “The final order, signed by AHCA Secretary Liz Dudek on Friday, rejects a recommendation from an administrative law judge who held hearings in the case in November. The judge, …
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Citing information from the National Center for Health Statistics, the New York Times reports with Venn diagrams to explain how Alzheimer’s disease, high blood pressure and heart disease overlap for those who reside at Assisted Living Facilities. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/04/16/science/disease-overlap-in-elderly.html?smid=pl-share
While Congress expanded protections to “domestic service” workers in 1974, these Amendments also created a limited exemption from both the minimum wage and overtime pay requirements of the Act for casual babysitters and companions for the aged and infirm, and created an exemption from the overtime pay requirement only for live-in domestic workers.Although the regulations …
“We care about the citizens of our state. We know this will be bad for our health care. We want jobs in our state. This is going to put American businesses at an unbelievable disadvantage as compared to businesses around the world.” Gov. Rick Scott, talking to Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren on Friday …
For another view of Medicaid reform in Florida read below: Medicaid Cure patients rate better than patients trapped in old Medicaid in nearly two-thirds of national health categories. And Medicaid Cure patients report higher satisfaction rates in 83 percent of satisfaction measures compared to patients in both old Medicaid and commercial HMOs. The Medicaid Cure …
News Service of Florida is reporting that Florida will opt out of spending about $2 billion more to expand Medicaid, and wont build insurance exchanges, another optional part of the federal health care law, Gov. Rick Scotts office said Sunday. via Gov. Rick Scott confirms: No Medicaid expansion for Florida | jacksonville.com.