Florida Medicaid

Even though Florida’s Legislature turned down federal funds to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, leaving billions of federal dollars on the…

A report from analyst firm Stifel says Florida has added four more Medicaid managed care contracts in addition to the two insurers, Centene and WellCare,…

Some low-income Floridians who can't get Medicaid coverage now will qualify for it after Jan. 1, under new Medicaid eligibility guidelines that apply…

A research team that has been monitoring Florida’s “Medicaid Reform” movement for almost a decade is calling for vigilance as the last patients – those…

The Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford and his GOP colleagues refused to accept billions of dollars in federal funds to cover 1 million poor uninsured…

While most of the attention in Tallahassee this week has been elsewhere -- on education standards or the rollout of the health law -- legislative…

Sunshine State Health Plan, a subsidiary of Centene Corp., won more contracts than any other company in the bidding for a slice of the Florida Medicaid…

Two more Republican governors of big states have agreed to accept federal funds that will allow an expansion of Medicaid health coverage to low-income…

Even as Florida nursing homes received an above-average score from a consumer group, questions continued to swirl around the departure of three of the…

WellCare Health Plans, with its stock already up more than 40 percent this year, announced it is buying another company on Thursday. The Tampa company…