Lorena Martin’s 18-year-old son, Robert, hurt his ankle playing football one recent Friday evening. He was in pain and unable to walk, and she was concerned that he’d done real damage.. Both her doctor’s office and the nearby urgent care center were closed, so with no other options, she took
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Today, the Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding met in Jacksonville for the second stop on its Spotlight Transparency Tour across Florida. Governor Scott charged the Commission with investigating how taxpayer dollars fund hospitals and the affect those tax dollars have on patient outcomes and quality of
AUTHOR OF ‘UNACCOUNTABLE’ KICKS OFF HEALTHCARE COMMISSION’S TRAVELING ‘TRANSPARENCY TOUR’ via Christine Sexton of Florida Politics The “Spotlight Transparency Tour” starts in Tampa on Wednesday June 17 with at least two local hospital executives and Marty Makary, medical doctor and author of “Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care,” slated
Determined to show that more competition will lead to better access to healthcare, a Florida House committee gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a plan to eliminate the controversial law that requires state approval for the building of new hospitals. The House Health Innovation Subcommittee voted 9-3 along party lines to
Today, the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (Agency) sent a letter to Appropriations Committee Chairs Lee, Corcoran, Garcia and Hudson concerning the Agency’s proposal for the Low-Income Pool program and hospital reimbursement methodologies. For entire letter: .pdf| Florida Agency for Health Care Administration
Gov. Rick Scott has submitted a plan to the federal government that would shift federal money to treat uninsured patients from public, safety-net providers to for-profit hospitals. The plan has come under fire from the Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida, which did an analysis that showed the governor is