Julio Ochoa
Julio Ochoa is editor of Health News Florida.
He comes to WUSF from The Tampa Tribune, where he began as a website producer for TBO.com and served in several editing roles, eventually becoming the newspaper’s deputy metro editor.
Julio was born and raised in St. Petersburg, and received a bachelor’s degree from Florida State University. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Colorado and worked at a paper in Greeley, Colo., before returning to Florida as a reporter and as breaking news editor for the Naples Daily News.
Contact Julio at 813-974-8633, on Twitter at @julioochoa or email .
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Consumers who want to enroll in Obamacare for 2018 will have less help and a shorter time to do it. -
Florida hospitals recently learned that an agreement between the state and federal governments will provide them with up to $1.5 billion to cover care... -
Michael Smith graduated from a Caribbean medical school in 2014 with a degree and a mountain of debt. He wants to start paying it off, but first he... -
The state's first sexually-transmitted case of Zika virus in 2017 has been confirmed in Pinellas County. -
A state investigation into St. Petersburg's sewage spills places much of the blame on the decision to close the Albert Whitted wastewater treatment... -
The St. Petersburg Free Clinic’s health center has a new home and it’s twice as big. The clinic outgrew its space in downtown St. Petersburg and was... -
With everyone age 65 and older eligible for Medicare, seniors may be the last group that comes to mind when there's talk of Medicaid spending reductions. -
Changes to Medicaid in Republican proposals for health care reform could cause insurance rates to go up for everyone, according to Rep. Kathy Castor. -
Six companies filed to sell health insurance in Florida next year on the Obamacare exchanges with an average rate increase of 17.8 percent, state... -
Hundreds of millions of gallons of sewage spilled onto Pinellas County streets and into waterways after last year's tropical storms. A task force set up... -
The 2016 presidential election generated a lot of stress. But for those in ethnic and religious groups in the middle of the debate, the stress could be... -
Florida Blue will file its proposed rates for the Affordable Care Act marketplace this week and officials warn they could increase by 20 percent if the...
