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The report found that 8 in 10 calls to Florida's Medicaid call center were automatically disconnected from the phone system. When people managed to get through, there were long delays to reach ...
Florida Medicaid is "The Payer of Last Resort". The rate for support coordination was reduced in 2011. The highest rate paid over the 18 years of the waiver was $161.60 per month, for each person served. In mid 2016 the rate was changed from the lowered $125.71 per month to $148.69, for adults and for children living in group homes, and from ...
Medicaid is the largest source of funding for medical and health-related services for people with low income in the United States, providing free health insurance to 85 million low-income and disabled people as of 2022; [3] in 2019, the program paid for half of all U.S. births. [4]
e. Home and Community-Based Services waivers (HCBS waivers) or Section 1915 (c) waivers, 42 U.S.C. Ch. 7, § 1396n §§ 1915 (c), are a type of Medicaid waiver. HCBS waivers expand the types of settings in which people can receive comprehensive long-term care under Medicaid. Prior to the creation of HCBS waivers, comprehensive long-term care ...
At an Aug. 21 news conference, DeSantis was asked by NBC News why so many Floridians who should still be on Medicaid were losing coverage during the unwinding. “I’m not sure that’s true ...
Large-scale medical hacks are horrible in themselves, but sometimes it's the ease of the hacks that's scary -- and Florida knows this first-hand. The state's Agency for Health Care Administration ...
The Florida Department of Children and Families, which determines Medicaid eligibility, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Dorn, the report’s main author, called the numbers ...
The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) is the chief health policy and planning entity for the U.S. state of Florida. The agency was created by the Florida Legislature as part of the Health Care Reform Act of 1992. [1] The agency is tasked with managing the state's Medicaid program as well as overseeing the licensure of the ...