health insurance

After thousands of families lost Medicaid, many families enrolled their children with complex needs in “Florida Healthy Kids,” a state insurance plan that wasn’t meant to cover their complex medical care.

Florida terminated Medicaid coverage for more than one million people once the COVID-19 emergency declaration was ended. Thousands of children with complex medical needs lost their Medicaid coverage. Some of them ended up on a plan not designed to provide the coverage they need leaving them without proper care.

The program at issue is jointly funded by the state, the federal government and premiums.

Florida officials are delaying the implementation of new rules for Florida’s subsidized children’s health insurance, aka Kidcare, so the incoming presidential administration can weigh in.

Tens of thousands of recipients under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, are eligible — for the first time — to sign up for affordable health insurance during open enrollment until Jan. 15.

Medicare Advantage, also known as Part C, was supposed to save the government money. Instead, the program’s payment rules overpay insurance companies on the taxpayer’s dime.

For a decade, Florida lawmakers have debated whether to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Advocates are trying to circumvent the legislature and take the issue directly to voters.

For the first time, Medicare will negotiate the prices of 10 common medicines. The negotiated prices will be effective in 2026.

The data, apparently taken from a location used to automate email messages, was made available by an “unknown and unauthorized party” on an online forum, HCA announced.

The law expands subsidized insurance coverage for families of four with incomes up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level, or about $90,000 annually.

A Florida woman tried to dispute an emergency room bill, but the hospital and collection agency refused to talk to her — because it was her child's name on the bill, not hers.

Instead of health insurance, the Rev. Jeff King had signed up for an alternative that left members of the plan to share the costs of health care. That meant lower premiums, but a huge hospital bill.