Agency for Health Care Administration

The judge dismissed the state's lawsuit against two federal agencies and said the case should instead be an administrative challenge. Next stop is the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.

The new rule threatens the loss of insurance funds in an attempt to prevent discrimination based on sex, including gender identity. The judge wrote that state agencies faced "imminent injury" because of the rule.

The technology has generated notices with errors, sent Medicaid paperwork to the wrong addresses, and been frozen for hours at a time, according to state audits, court documents, and interviews.

The numbers provided by the state likely include procedures from April due to an expected lag in reporting.

The website will include educational materials on pregnancy and parenting, maternal health services, prenatal and postnatal services, programs for fathers, adoption services and more.

A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments in the case the week of Sept. 16 in Birmingham.

In response to the report, a DCF official says the state's outreach strategy went "above and beyond" federal requirements and "any notion that Florida has failed in this process is false."

The Agency for Health Care Administration issued emergency rules outlining some medical exceptions to the state's six-week abortion ban. But doctors are still left with questions and frustration.

The new rules cover documentation and clarify that it will not "constitute an abortion” to induce live births and babies die because of prematurely ruptured membranes, or for treating ectopic pregnancies and trophoblastic tumors.

Proposing a housing-first model, a new AHCA housing assistance pilot program combines health care and homeless services to secure housing for qualifying Medicaid recipients.