Medicaid

The federal Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services has given full approval for Florida to essentially privatize its Medicaid program. Under the…

Tallahassee businesswoman Rita Stevens runs a bustling childcare center. In addition to caring for other people’s children, Stevens is the primary…

Who won during the 2013 legislative session? Teachers and state workers won. They’re getting pay raises. Democrats helped kill a controversial bill giving…

Low-income seniors living in and around Orlando will be the first entrants into the state’s Medicaid managed care program.The state will begin an outreach…

The question of whether Florida would expand its Medicaid program to cover more low-income people has been answered, and it’s a “no” -- at least for now.…

The Florida Senate has officially narrowed the list of Medicaid alternative plans pending in the legislature from three, to two.Lawmakers in the upper…

Women’s health advocates from Planned Parenthood are calling on Florida lawmakers to expand insurance coverage to more than 1 million low-income people.…

A week after both houses of the Florida Legislature rejected the expansion of Medicaid under the federal health care law, Democratic leaders in the…

Florida could cover around a million more low-income people if it expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. But the House seems to have thrown cold…

Medicaid has come to dominate headlines in the first week of the legislative session, dividing Florida’s Republican lawmakers and sparking doubts that an…