undocumented immigrants

Some Central Florida mental health providers are getting more calls for help after sweeping immigration reforms were signed into law last week.

Some worry the measure could lead many people to avoid care. The bill requires hospitals that accept Medicaid to ask patients about immigration status and inform them that personal information won't be reported to immigration authorities.

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.

Many are essential workers at high risk of exposure to the coronavirus — and the pandemic’s economic crash — with no direct access to billions of dollars in federal pandemic relief.

The federal government has designated farm workers as "essential" t o the U.S. food supply chain during the COVID-19 crisis. Ironically, about two...

A Broward County hospital system has filed a potential class-action lawsuit alleging that the state improperly recouped Medicaid money that had gone to…

A state appeals court Wednesday sided with three Lee County hospitals in a payment dispute with the state stemming from emergency care provided to…

The Trump administration has proposed expanding a policy that would deny green cards to immigrants who access certain public benefits, like food stamps...

Florida lawmakers are considering a bill that would increase penalties and jail time for people unlawfully in the U.S. convicted of certain violent...

Among the early bills already being filed for Florida’s 2017 legislative session is a measure from Rep. Dane Eagle , R-Cape Coral, that would increase...