Agency for Health Care Administration

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.

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.

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.

Among the other measures awaiting the governor's pen was a proposal that would broaden doctors’ ability to prescribe controlled substances through telemedicine.

The payment problems left families in Florida with critically ill children who relied on Medicaid-paid health providers stranded.

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.

A post-merger computer meltdown resulted in families not being able to pay for nursing care and other home health services for nearly three months.

Perhaps the most controversial part of the proposal, which was approved by the House Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee, centers on how dental services would be provided to Medicaid beneficiaries.

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.