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More than half of those removed from Medicaid were terminated for so-called “procedural,” reasons, like not responding to mail, outdated contact info or computer glitches.

According to the advocacy group UnidosUS, Spanish speakers in Florida waited an average of 2.5 hours in July and August, while English speakers waited an average of 36 minutes.

The Florida Policy Institute's latest push comes after data shows Florida removed 408,000 people from its Medicaid rolls since April. Only Texas has surpassed Florida's numbers.

The waivers aim to reduce the risk of eligible families losing Medicaid coverage due to procedural errors.

The pandemic forced states to not kick anyone off the Medicaid rolls. That ended in April. But many of those booted from the program now scramble to retain their eligibility.

The federal government’s arcane process for medical coding is influencing which reconstructive surgery options are available, creating anxiety for breast cancer patients.

States must remove people from the program whose incomes are too high. Some recipients in Florida and other states that have started the process say they've been mistakenly removed.

Hospitals are facing mixed reviews regarding their efforts to comply with a federal requirement that they post information about prices related to nearly every health care service they provide.

A House bill would close one of a laundry list of oversight gaps revealed in a recent investigation of the system regulators use to ban fraudsters from billing government health programs.

States are turning to the big health insurance companies to keep Medicaid enrollees insured once pandemic protections end in April. The insurers’ motive: profits.