Christine Sexton News Service Of Florida

April 19, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Tampa General Hospital is throwing its support behind a bipartisan proposal that, if passed by Congress, would allow it and other large health care systems to challenge how the government estimates additional Medicare payments.

By Christine Sexton, News Service of Florida

3 minute read

April 03, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Gov. Rick Scott's long-standing priority to eliminate Florida's certificate-of-need program for Florida hospitals came to a halt, after a member of a powerful panel withdrew a proposal that would have overhauled the current hospital-approval system.

By Christine Sexton, News Service of Florida

3 minute read

April 02, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Florida's Medicaid program has been rapped by auditors who questioned what the state got for millions of dollars spent with a company whose lobbyists included two former Republican House speakers and a former top health care regulator.

By Christine Sexton, News Service of Florida

4 minute read

March 30, 2018 | Daily Business Review

The largest nonprofit AIDS health care provider in the nation is at risk of being blocked out of South Florida's Medicaid market.

By Christine Sexton, News Service of Florida

4 minute read

March 28, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Florida is asking the federal government to amend a sweeping Medicaid “waiver,” including seeking permission to add community mental-health providers to the list of those able to participate in a supplemental Medicaid funding program.

By Christine Sexton, News Service of Florida

4 minute read

March 21, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Saying he didn't want to make changes necessary to get it passed, Florida Constitution Revision Commission member Brecht Heuchan withdrew a proposal that would have guaranteed certain rights to nursing home residents and allowed them to sue facilities if those rights were violated.

By Christine Sexton, News Service of Florida

4 minute read

March 20, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Gov. Rick Scott signed 30 bills into law, including a measure that could make more permanent a controversial pregnancy “support services” program and a bill that calls for placing a statue of civil-rights leader and educator Mary McLeod Bethune in the U.S. Capitol.

By Jim Saunders and Christine Sexton, News Service of Florida

4 minute read

March 08, 2018 | Daily Business Review

A bill that could increase enrollment in health care sharing ministries was passed by the Florida House and is headed to Gov. Rick Scott.

By Christine Sexton, News Service of Florida

3 minute read

March 08, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Lawmakers continued to negotiate the terms of opioid legislation, with the Senate standing firm in its position that insurance companies should not put obstacles in the way of medication-assisted therapy.

By Christine Sexton, News Service of Florida

3 minute read

March 07, 2018 | Daily Business Review

The legal dramas that have swirled around Florida's trauma system in recent years would be settled under a bill that revamps rules and regulations and recognizes trauma centers at some HCA Healthcare facilities across the state.

By Christine Sexton, News Service of Florida

4 minute read