Medicaid

Tampa-based U.S. District Judge William Jung issued an injunction in July to halt the rule, which was designed to help prevent discrimination in health care programs that receive federal money.

The settlement had been in the works for more than a year, including AHCA going through a rule-making process to provide “medically necessary” incontinence supplies to adults, according to court documents.

All three plans filed the challenges after getting shut out of receiving contracts to manage care for Medicaid beneficiaries.

As Florida and other states wait for Deloitte to make fixes in computer systems, Medicaid beneficiaries risk losing access to health care and food.

Florida KidCare, a childhood insurance option for some parents who lost coverage, is failing to offset the coverage gap left by the Medicaid unwinding.

The health plans AmeriHealth Caritas Florida and Sentara Care Alliance are challenging decisions by AHCA to deny them contracts to manage care for Medicaid beneficiaries.

More facilities are partnering with private equity-backed firms to offer combined emergency and urgent care. But patients may not realize prices vary between the two services — often by a lot.

The program had nearly 5.78 million beneficiaries in April 2023, but enrollment has steadily decreased since the end of the federal public health emergency.

With billions of dollars on the line, three protests about Medicaid managed care contracts have been sent to a state administrative law judge by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration.

A losing bidder has filed a lawsuit arguing that Florida health officials should be barred from moving forward with new Medicaid managed care contracts until its fight for a contract is resolved.