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 ...

CMS renewed Florida's section 1115 waiver requesting continuation of the state's Medicaid managed care program and low-income pool. Here are three things to know. 1. Under the renewal, roughly 3.4 ...

Based on evidence Florida’s attempt to reform Medicaid is bearing fruit for the Sunshine State, Republican Gov. Rick Scott is seeking to expand it beyond its initial test counties. Florida passed its ...

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 ...

Following a yearlong delay, the Biden administration has approved a waiver request to expand eligibility for Florida’s subsidized children’s health insurance program (CHIP). The approval will enable ...

Medicaid is one of the most important programs in our health care system. This joint federal and state program provides coverage to low-income adults and children. Some of these recipients may be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Incarceration is associated with well-documented, significant negative health impacts, both in terms of health disparities experienced by people who have been incarcerated and the systemic impacts of ...