2025 Florida State of Reform Health Policy Conference

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This panel will discuss recent efforts to support and grow Florida’s healthcare workforce, including key provisions from the Live Healthy Florida legislative package to bolster the behavioral health workforce. Speakers will identify where work still needs to be done and talk through promising solutions for continuing to recruit and retain healthcare workers in Florida. 

As Florida continues to innovate and evolve its healthcare delivery system, value-based care has emerged as a central strategy for improving outcomes, enhancing patient satisfaction, and controlling costs. This panel will discuss Florida’s Medicaid contracts, which incorporate key value-based care components aimed at shifting the state’s healthcare system toward more patient-centered, outcome-driven models. The panel will also discuss promising strategies for advancing the state’s commercial value-based care environment. 

Florida’s aging population is growing at an unprecedented rate, bringing both opportunities and challenges to the state’s healthcare system. Older Floridians often face significant obstacles in accessing care, from difficulty navigating complex healthcare systems to social isolation and behavioral health issues. Adding to this challenge is a shortage of board-certified gerontologists, leaving many seniors without specialized care tailored to their unique needs. This panel will talk through the most promising strategies for ensuring older Floridians receive the care they need. 

As healthcare technology rapidly advances, Florida stands at the forefront of exploring how innovative tools like wearables, artificial intelligence (AI), and other digital solutions can transform health outcomes for its diverse population. This panel will explore how these technologies can best be used to enhance patient care, improve health monitoring, and drive efficiencies in Florida’s healthcare system. 

This panel will explore the current landscape of children’s behavioral health in Florida, examining the unique challenges faced by youth, their families, and healthcare providers in navigating care. Panelists will discuss key issues such as rising rates of anxiety, depression, and trauma, as well as barriers to accessing timely, culturally competent, and effective services. Experts will share strategies for expanding care options, enhancing early intervention, and addressing systemic gaps that contribute to delays in diagnosis and treatment. 

Florida’s healthcare system is uniquely challenged by the frequency and intensity of hurricanes, which can disrupt services, damage infrastructure, and place vulnerable populations at significant risk. Effective emergency preparedness is critical to ensuring that healthcare providers can maintain care delivery, protect patients, and quickly recover after a storm. This panel will explore best practices for hurricane response in Florida’s healthcare sector, with a focus on the collaborative efforts between the federal government, the state, and healthcare providers to enhance preparedness and response. 

This panel will provide an in-depth status update on Florida’s CORE (Community Outreach, Recovery, and Education) program, a critical initiative in the state’s ongoing efforts to combat the opioid crisis. This session will explore the progress and impact of CORE, which integrates prevention, treatment, and recovery services to support individuals and communities affected by opioid use disorder. Speakers will also discuss additional promising strategies for addressing the opioid crisis among Floridians. 

With the potential for significant changes to federal health policy under the Trump administration, Florida health leaders are eager to understand how federal health policy might shift in the coming months and how it will impact their state. This panel will explore the key federal policy shifts that could impact Florida healthcare, particularly focusing on potential changes to Medicaid, the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP), and other critical healthcare programs. 

This panel will explore the intersection of housing policy and healthcare in Florida, with a focus on the innovative efforts to address housing instability among vulnerable populations. Key topics will include Florida Medicaid’s housing pilot program for patients with serious mental illness, which is designed to improve health outcomes by providing stable housing as a foundational component of care. The discussion will also delve into the role of managed care organizations (MCOs) in tackling the affordable housing crisis, highlighting their strategies to support the unhoused and housing-insecure individuals. 

This panel will bring together some of the leading lawmakers working on health policymaking in the Florida Legislature. These legislators will discuss the legislation they supported this year, key themes during this year’s convening, and their priorities for improving state healthcare heading into the future. 

Details coming soon.