Agency for Health Care Administration

The dispute centers on how much money Medicaid should be able to recoup from a legal settlement involving a girl who suffered catastrophic injuries when she was struck by a truck.

A 69-year-old woman who went missing ended up dead in a car in the parking lot at Victoria’s Retirement home in Lauderhill on Sept. 18.

The state, which continues to wait for FDA approval, expects to import drugs to treat asthma, COPD, diabetes, hepatitis C, HIV and AIDS, and mental health conditions.

Two families from Northeast Florida claim the state's Medicaid program is illegally applying the same criteria to infants and children with medically complex needs that it applies to adults.

Thirty-four petitions have been filed in administrative court by companies that are challenging AHCA's decisions to deny applications for hospice services or to approve those of competitors.

Advocates for poor, elderly and disabled individuals, who have been pressing the DeSantis administration to leverage the additional funding since spring, hailed the plan.

Gov. Ron DeSantis let an executive order declaring a public health emergency expire Saturday, and with it many regulatory flexibilities providers received during the pandemic including those related to telehealth.

New hospice programs may now be coming to seven counties, including Broward, Lee and Manatee, which were not included in a Feb. 5 list of areas that needed new programs.

Among the changes: “Wrap around” payments will go from a monthly back to a quarterly schedule and prior authorizations will resume for behavioral health services.

The state wants a 30-day extension to consider the effects of using added funds from the American Rescue Plan for home- and community-based services.