Organizations across the Florida healthcare landscape believe the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) should increase physician payment rates, reduce administrative burdens and delays in credentialing for providers, and implement value-based payment models focusing on maternal and behavioral healthcare to improve the state Medicaid program. On May 6th, AHCA released a Request for … Read more
Last month, the Florida Board of Medicine and Board of Osteopathic Medicine voted to ban gender-affirming care for transgender and gender non-conforming youth. The ban will impact Floridians under 18 and ban care to treat gender dysphoria, including hormone blockers and gender-affirming surgery. According to USA Today Network, this ruling will only apply … Read more
We hosted our 2022 Florida State of Reform Health Policy Conference last week, bringing together thought leaders, legislators, and policy experts into multi-silo conversations about the future of health care in Florida. Too often, those with good ideas for reforming health care don’t have a solid understanding of how the legislative process works. … Read more
The Topical Agenda for our 2022 Florida State of Reform Health Policy Conference is now live! State of Reform pulls in health care and health policy executives—each working to improve the health care system in their own way—into a united conversation and in a single space. At this conference, we will be exploring the … Read more
Staffing challenges was a common frustration expressed by group home leaders during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee meeting this past week. Staff pay ended up being the driving force behind a lot of these struggles raised by the officials, and it went hand in hand with both staff and bed availability. Lynne Daw, the … Read more
Black Floridians on average have poorer health outcomes, worse access to health care, and lower quality of care compared to the state’s white population, according to a report from The Commonwealth Fund. Poor health outcomes One metric that stands out is hospital readmission rates. According to The Commonwealth Fund, Black Floridians were readmitted at … Read more
Third-quarter data on statewide opioid prescriptions for 2021 has been made available by Florida Health, and shows that between July and September, the number of prescriptions dispensed to patient ticked down. According to the dashboard on Florida Health Charts, the number of opioid prescriptions decreased during the third quarter to 2.94 million, down from 3.16 … Read more
Simone Marstiller, secretary for the Florida Agency of Health Care Administration, provided an update to the Senate Committee on Health Policy on the state’s prescription drug importation program, which could eventually bring cheaper prescriptions into the state from Canada. In 2003, Congress passed the Medicare Modernization Act, which authorized the commercial importation of prescription drugs … Read more
Florida’s House Health and Human Services Committee held an interim committee hearing on Oct. 19 to address health care staffing challenges facing the state. Of primary concern for several of the health officials that participated in the meeting was inadequate staff pay, the workforce pipeline, and regulatory roadblocks. Staffing agencies Health officials … Read more