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If the rule is approved, Medicaid would not pay for gender-affirming treatments in Florida. That includes puberty blockers, hormones and sex-assignment surgeries for both youth and adults.
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AHCA, which runs most of the Medicaid program, published a proposed rule and set a July 8 hearing on the issue. National and state legal and LGBTQ-advocacy groups have vowed to fight the proposal.
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Dr. Michael Haller, UF's chief of pediatric endocrinology, says his team provides gender-affirming treatment to about 200 patients, and two-thirds are covered by Medicaid.
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AHCA will start a rule-making process related to treatments for gender dysphoria, including sex-reassignment surgery, saying they are “not consistent with generally accepted professional medical standards and are experimental.”
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Hospitals must submit a record of how much they are spending to treat people in the country illegally to curb the numbers transported to Florida from the southern U.S. border by the federal government.
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The 10-year-old case surrounds a lawsuit filed by the Justice Department after the agency accused Florida of unnecessarily institutionalizing children with disabilities in nursing homes.
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Florida's largest Medicaid vendor had until Thursday to dispute the penalty imposed last month by the state Agency for Health Care Administration, leaving the company with one option: pay the fine.
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Among the other measures awaiting the governor's pen was a proposal that would broaden doctors’ ability to prescribe controlled substances through telemedicine.
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The payment problems left families in Florida with critically ill children who relied on Medicaid-paid health providers stranded.
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A House version of the Medicaid bill includes a controversial proposed change that would bring dental services under the umbrella of the managed care plans.