Florida is a million miles from Medicaid expansion – Orlando Sentinel. Despite an influx of federal dollars, the State of Florida continues to turn away 7 million dollars a day in Medicaid funding.
States Accelerate Shift Of Nursing Home Residents Into Medicaid Managed Care – Kaiser Health News. By Jack Rosenkranz Kaiser Health News reports that ” States had traditionally been reluctant to place frail and elderly people into managed care. But that caution is fading as officials become comfortable with managed care and more anxious to curb Medicaid …
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 …
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE WWW.NATIONALREVIEW.COM PRINT JUNE 23, 2010 4:00 AM A Conversation with Arthur C. Brooks, Part 1 The new culture war is not about guns, gays, and abortion — it is about free enterprise, which in turn is about human flourishing and human freedom. By Interview AEI’s Arthur C. Brooks always manages to see …
My research has always revealed that health care follows the money. So I was not surprised that the Insurance Company industry is profiting from the Health Law Mandate. This is not a “bad profit” if coverage has high quality of care and high quality of life. Bloomberg reports The industry that was the loudest, most …
The Justice Department had filed its first brief on Friday in the US Supreme Court. The Court is being asked to define questions about Congress’s power. This will have huge impact in Florida if the Law is upheld and the state is forced to comply. A watchful eye on this issue is needed. For more …
Panel Wrestles with Federal Rules for Health Funding “The issue centers on a $1-billion-a-year program known as the Low Income Pool, which sends extra money to hospitals and other providers statewide that care for large numbers of poor and uninsured patients. The so-called “LIP” program was created as part of the pilot, which is controversial …
CNN is reporting that with Medicare reforms Doctors are going broke. As a counter point, accountable care organizations start this month, Doctors may seek shelter in these practices. ACO may offer more compensation to those providers if they can keep patients from needing expensive care. This is part of great effort to rewrite our social …
From PR Newsletter: JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSF) and the AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies (AMFC) today announced an agreement to enter into a joint venture to bring best-in-class Medicaid managed care and services to Florida beginning in mid-2012. The joint venture, called Florida …