The continuing growth in states’ Medicaid programs has placed a severe financial strain on state budgets. In fiscal year 2024, Medicaid was the largest category of total state spending, consuming 29.8 ...
The Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) operated “under the assumption” that 25% of the 111,789 Medicaid recipients who fit the bill’s target of “able-bodied” adults would lose Medicaid by ...
Rick Scott, a former health care company CEO, campaigned on promises in 2010 to fight to repeal Obamacare and reform Medicaid with a waiver. Florida first received a waiver for the program in 2005 ...
On May 15, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a proposed rule, entitled “Preserving Medicaid Funding for Vulnerable Populations – Closing a Health Care-Related Tax ...
Florida Gov. Rick Scott became the seventh Republican governor to agree to accept federal funds in exchange for expanded eligibility for the state’s Medicaid program. The governor’s announcement took ...
Holly Wimsatt, director of the Bureau of Disabilities Services within FSSA, said the agency is introducing new evaluation tools specifically designed for children and infants. She also said a ...
As Senate Republicans have been engaged in private discussions about restructuring Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income individuals, to fund the extension of Trump’s $4.6 trillion tax ...