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A Florida rule excluding gender-affirming health care from Medicaid coverage is unlawful and unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, adding that the policy, enacted last year under the ...
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 ...
The American Health Care Association ( AHCA) is a non-profit federation of affiliated state health organizations that represents more than 14,000 non-profit and for-profit nursing homes, assisted living communities, [ 1] and facilities for individuals with disabilities. The organization's president and CEO is Mark Parkinson, a former governor ...
Between March 2020 and November 2022, Florida’s Medicaid program increased from 3.8 million enrollees to 5.5 million, according to the judge’s order establishing the lawsuit’s classes.
Florida's Medicaid call center is experiencing long wait times and high rates of disconnection that could be preventing families from renewing or accessing healthcare coverage, according to a ...
In June 2022, the Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration (AHCA), the agency responsible for overseeing the state's Medicaid service, released a report declaring transgender hormone therapy "experimental and investigational". [148] [149] The AHCA did not reveal its communications with health experts that led to its report. [150]
Story at a glance Florida’s Medicaid program will no longer cover gender-affirming medical care including puberty blockers, hormones or surgeries for transgender recipients under a new state rule.
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 ...