Welcome again to Prognosis, a vertical that focuses on the crossroads of well being care coverage and politics.
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— Budgetary issues —
Gov. Ron DeSantis could spend a whole lot of time on the marketing campaign path, however we additionally count on him to roll out his funds for 2024 within the subsequent a number of days.
Senate committees have already scheduled Dec. 6 to listen to displays from DeSantis’ funds employees in a number of areas, together with the Governor’s funds suggestions on well being care spending and key companies such because the Company for Well being Care Administration (AHCA) and the Division of Well being (DOH).
DeSantis should submit his spending plan to state legislators no less than 30 days earlier than the scheduled Jan. 9 opening day of Session. The timeline laid out by the Senate suggests the Governor will launch it between now and subsequent Tuesday.
This would be the sixth set of funds suggestions outlined by DeSantis, however in contrast to the final a number of years, he has but to present a whole lot of hints or spelled out lots of his prime priorities forward of time. Given the state’s continued funds surplus, DeSantis has urged he’ll most likely ask for a contemporary spherical of tax cuts. Nonetheless, he wants to stipulate many different important spending objects.
One merchandise of curiosity would be the state’s Medicaid funds and the way a lot state cash will must be put aside for this system funded collectively with the federal authorities. State economists have projected the caseload will proceed to drop from a peak in the course of the COVID-19 emergency as state officers proceed to trim the rolls whilst outdoors teams and even the federal authorities increase alarm bells on the fee.
Medicaid enrollment in the course of the calendar yr has dropped from 5.77 million on the finish of April to five.10 million on the finish of October. Economists had beforehand projected that Medicaid enrollment would dip to about 5.02 million by the top of June 2024.
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— Grand jury replace —
Almost a yr in the past, at DeSantis’ urging, the Florida Supreme Courtroom agreed to impanel a statewide grand jury to have a look at pharmaceutical firms and others concerned in creating and distributing COVID-19 vaccines.
However thus far, the grand jury has issued no stories or given any updates on its work and, in some unspecified time in the future, the clock will tick down.
Statewide grand juries are appointed for one yr. Nonetheless, the courtroom can prolong the time period by six months if petitioned by a majority of the statewide grand jury or by the authorized adviser to the statewide grand jury. A grand jury immigration points, for instance, requested for and was granted an extension till April 2024.
The one-year mark, nevertheless, isn’t tied to the courtroom’s order however to when the grand jury itself is seated, in response to a consultant for the Supreme Courtroom. That date seems to have been later within the spring of 2023.
A key query stays whether or not the grand jury will produce findings that DeSantis can tout on the presidential marketing campaign path. The Iowa caucuses are Jan. 15, and the DeSantis marketing campaign is relying on a strong displaying for momentum in his problem to former President Donald Trump.
DeSantis, who early on promoted the usage of vaccines solely to precise skepticism on their effectiveness later, filed a petition in December 2022 asking the courtroom to bless the creation of a grand jury to look into the security and efficacy of vaccines, including that “an investigation is warranted to find out whether or not the pharmaceutical trade has engaged in fraudulent practices.”
Throughout his presidential bid, DeSantis faulted Trump for sticking by prime medical adviser Anthony Fauci. So, any hostile findings from the grand jury may help the Governor’s criticisms of Trump.
The COVID-19 vaccine grand jury is at the moment presided over by the chief decide of Hillsborough County, with jurors chosen from 5 completely different circuits in central and southwest Florida.
— Achtung, Weida —
In keeping with social media websites, AHCA Secretary Jason Weida has been in Germany as a part of the state’s commerce mission, attending a well being know-how commerce present and assembly with German well being care officers and physicians.
Weida led Florida’s mission to the @MEDICATradeFair in Germany. ABHI, an acronym for the Affiliation of British HealthTech Industries, sponsored the four-day commerce present.
In the meantime, the state Commerce Division posted on X that dozens of Florida medical firms displayed “cutting-edge, high-quality medical services and products.”
Weida additionally met with the Bavarian State Ministry of Well being, which oversees the well being care system for Bavaria’s 13 million residents.
Weida posted on X that the assembly “centered on hospital regulation, pharmaceutical pricing, and demographic modifications and challenges.”
He additionally met with Klinikum Rechts der Isar CEO and medical director Dr. Martin Siess.
“Amongst different issues, we mentioned most cancers remedy and innovation within the discipline of nuclear drugs with the pinnacle of the hospital’s division, Dr. Wolfgang Weber. I look ahead to persevering with our dialogue of most cancers innovation and connecting them with thought leaders in Florida,” Weida wrote on X.
Germany has common well being protection offered by Statutory Well being Insurance coverage (SHI) and personal medical insurance (PHI). SHI is necessary until an individual earns sufficient to choose out and buy the PHI. Roughly 88% of the inhabitants receives main protection via SHI and 11% have PHI, in response to The CommonWealth Fund.
— Naloxone confusion —
A Senate well being panel subsequent week is predicted to advance laws establishing June 6 as Naloxone Consciousness Day. SB 66 creates in statute “Victoria’s Regulation,” which inspires the DOH to carry occasions to “increase consciousness of the risks of opioid overdose and the provision and protected use of naloxone as an efficient option to quickly reverse the consequences of opioid overdose.”
However there’s a battle of kinds happening between suppliers and the state over which naloxone product suppliers and the general public can entry: Narcan, a nasal spray usually administered in 4-milligram (mg) doses, and Kloxxado, administered in 8 mg doses and injectable types of naloxone.
Regulation enforcement, via the HEROS Program, has been utilizing different naloxone merchandise like Kloxxado to reverse overdoses for 2 years, shortly after it earned Meals and Drug Administration approval.
Some substance abuse suppliers have been pushing for entry to the extra highly effective Kloxxado, arguing that as fentanyl turns into extra highly effective, so too are bigger doses of naloxone.
DCF despatched correspondence to suppliers earlier this month that specifies further necessities for orders of upper doses (5 mg and eight mg) of naloxone.
DCF Workplace of Substance Abuse and Psychological Well being’s Sumer Bonner advised suppliers in an e mail that prime dose formulations “would require a further non-patient particular standing order to be signed for every product individually and there may be an attestation of coaching for the 5 mg prefilled injectable.”
This contradicts a statewide standing order issued by Florida’s Surgeon Common, permitting all types of naloxone with out these additional hurdles.
She connected two research recommending administering a decrease dose of naloxone to scale back potential hostile results, which will be life-threatening.
“Please take the time to assessment this info and schooling previous to putting the order,” she wrote within the e mail.
In keeping with Florida’s plan for SOR funding, which DCF administers, the state will prioritize widespread neighborhood saturation for any FDA-approved naloxone nasal spray. Beforehand, the plan solely allowed for the 4 mg variant.
— RULES —
AHCA proposes amending Rule 59A-36.006 concerning admission and continued residency standards for assisted residing services associated to communicable ailments. Extra here.
AHCA proposes amending Rule 59A-36.011 concerning coaching necessities for assisted residing facility employees offering specialised Alzheimer’s providers. Extra here.
AHCA proposes amending Rule 59A-35.060, F.S., to maneuver all licensure utility types into one rule and to require nursing properties, assisted residing services, dwelling well being companies, and homemaker/companion service suppliers to be revised to incorporate a direct care workforce survey. Extra here.
The Board of Drugs (BOM) proposes to repeal Rule 64B8-1.007 concerning authorized types of anesthesia. Extra here.
The BOM proposes amending Rule 64B8-1.002 concerning its operations to delete a provision that enables compensating Board members for attending persevering with medical schooling lessons. Extra here.
The Board of Chiropractic Drugs proposes amending Rule 64B2-13.004 to replace persevering with schooling necessities. Extra here.
— Payments of curiosity —
Here’s a checklist of some healthcare-related payments filed within the final two weeks.
SB 402 by Sen. Clay Yarbrough — Declarations of a public well being emergency: Offering that the administration of vaccines isn’t throughout the that means of the phrases “deal with,” “handled,” or “remedy” as they relate to public well being emergencies; authorizing a person to refuse examination, testing, or remedy beneath a State Well being Officer’s order throughout a public well being emergency by submitting a written refusal to the State Well being Officer; deleting the State Well being Officer’s authority to make use of any means essential to deal with a person beneath sure circumstances. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
SB 442 by Sen. Lauren Guide — Damages Recoverable in Wrongful Demise Actions: Citing this act because the “Keith Davis Household Safety Act,” eradicating a provision that prohibits grownup youngsters and oldsters of grownup youngsters from recovering sure damages in medical negligence fits, and many others. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
SB 436 by Sen. Erin Grall — Being pregnant and Parenting Sources Web site: Requiring the Division of Well being, in session with the Division of Kids and Households and the Company for Well being Care Administration, to keep up a web site that gives info and hyperlinks to explicit being pregnant and parenting sources; requiring every division and the company to offer a transparent and conspicuous hyperlink to the web site on their respective web sites; requiring the Division of Well being to contract with a third-party to develop the web site by a specified date, and many others. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
SB 412 by Sen. Ileana Garcia — Grownup day care facilities: Exempting sure grownup day care providers from particular established or negotiated Medicaid reimbursement charges; offering for reimbursement of grownup day care providers based mostly on a charge schedule established beneath a tiered fee system; requiring grownup daycare heart operators to finish a nine-hour persevering with schooling course annually; offering that classroom hours spent instructing an authorized course or lecturing at an authorized seminar could also be counted towards fulfilling an operator’s persevering with schooling necessities, and many others. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
SB 410 by Garcia — Safety from surgical smoke: Defining the phrases “smoke evacuation system” and “surgical smoke”; requiring hospitals and ambulatory surgical facilities to, by a specified date, undertake and implement insurance policies requiring the usage of smoke evacuation programs throughout particular surgical procedures, and many others. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
SB 432 by Sen. Corey Simon — Cardiac and medical emergencies on faculty grounds: Citing this act because the “HeartCharged Act”; requiring every public faculty to have no less than one automated exterior defibrillator on faculty grounds; encouraging every constitution faculty and personal faculty to have no less than one defibrillator on faculty grounds and to adjust to specified necessities; offering immunity from legal responsibility for varsity workers and college students beneath the Good Samaritan and the Cardiac Arrest Survival Acts; requiring the Commissioner of Schooling, at his or her sole discretion, to create and disseminate specified protocols and plans referring to the usage of defibrillators in faculties, and many others. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
SB 446 by Simon — Supported decision-making authority: Requiring a circuit courtroom to think about explicit wants and talents of an individual with a developmental incapacity when figuring out whether or not to nominate a guardian advocate; defining the time period “supported decision-making settlement”; prohibiting such settlement from performing as a sturdy energy of legal professional; requiring a petition to find out the incapacity of an individual to incorporate specified info referring to the alleged incapacitated particular person’s use of help, and many others. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
SB 444 by Sen. Jay Collins — Pharmacy: Authorizing registered pharmacy technicians to dispense medicinal medicine beneath sure circumstances; defining the phrases “supervising pharmacy” and “telepharmacy”; offering necessities for remote-site pharmacies; exempting registered pharmacists serving as prescription division managers for remote-site pharmacies from sure observe limitations, and many others. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
SB 488 by Sen. Tina Polsky — Medicaid protection for prescribed meals for illness remedy and prevention: Requiring the AHCA, with the DOH, to ascertain the Meals is Drugs Pilot Program to offer Medicaid protection for purchases and deliveries of prescribed health-promoting meals beneath sure circumstances; requiring the company, with the division, to hunt federal approval and waivers for the pilot program; requiring allocation of a portion of the pilot program implementation funds to a specified group for the institution of an outlined heart, and many others. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
SB 476 by Grall — Civil legal responsibility: Revising the definition of the time period “survivors” to incorporate the dad and mom of an unborn youngster; authorizing dad and mom of an unborn youngster to recuperate sure damages, and many others. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
SB 472: by Sen. Jason Brodeur — Sovereign immunity: Rising the statutory limits on legal responsibility for tort claims in opposition to the state and its companies and subdivisions; prohibiting an insurance coverage coverage from conditioning fee of advantages on the enactment of a declare invoice; specifying that the restrictions in impact on the date a last judgment is entered apply to that declare, and many others. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
SB 464 by Grall — Motorized vehicle insurance coverage: Repealing provisions that comprise the Florida Motor Automobile No-Fault Regulation; revising the motorized vehicle insurance coverage coverages that an applicant should present to register sure autos with the Division of Freeway Security and Motor Autos; revising minimal legal responsibility protection necessities for motorized vehicle house owners or operators; revising allowed strategies for assembly such necessities; revising monetary duty necessities for house owners or lessees of for-hire passenger autos; revising the minimal web price necessities to qualify sure individuals as self-insurers, and many others. Efficient date: Upon turning into legislation with some provisions taking impact July 1, 2025.
SB 504 by Sen. Linda Stewart — Sale of a deceased human physique’s biometric information: Offering disciplinary grounds for the sale of a useless human physique’s biometric information beneath sure circumstances; offering disciplinary grounds for a funeral institution that can’t present a legally approved particular person with specified disclosures concerning the sale of a deceased human physique’s biometric information or can’t present a legally approved particular person with the choice to choose out of such a sale, and many others. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
SB 516 by Garcia — Emergency refills of insulin and insulin-related provides or tools: Authorizing pharmacists to dispense an emergency refill of an ordinary unit of shelling out or a 30-day provide of insulin and insulin-related provides or tools a specified variety of instances per yr, and many others. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
SB 584 by Sen. Gayle Harrell — Well being care providers: Prohibiting a well being plan from declining to participate in a specific course of; requiring a well being plan to pay a claimant the quantity offered within the Company for Well being Care Administration’s last order inside a specified timeframe; offering a monetary penalty for failure to conform; requiring the company to inform the suitable licensure or certification entity beneath sure circumstances, and many others. Efficient date: Jan. 1, 2025.
SB 568 by Sen. Ed Hooper — Protection for out-of-network floor ambulance emergency providers: Requiring well being insurers and well being upkeep organizations, respectively, to reimburse out-of-network ambulance service suppliers at specified charges for offering emergency providers; prohibiting cost-sharing tasks paid for out-of-network ambulance service supplier from exceeding these of an in-network ambulance service supplier for coated providers; requiring well being insurers and well being upkeep organizations, respectively, to remit fee for coated providers if such transportation was requested by a primary responder or a well being care skilled, and many others. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
Home payments
HB 415 by Rep. Berny Jacques — Being pregnant and Parenting Sources Web site: Requires DOH, in session with DCF & AHCA, to keep up a web site that gives being pregnant & parenting sources & present clear & conspicuous hyperlinks to such web site on the official web site of respective departments & company; requires DOH to contract with third-party to develop such a web site by a specified date. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
HB 409 by Rep. Lavon Bracy Davis — Momentary money help eligibility: Removes the prohibition of awarding advantages to the particular person with a felony drug conviction for trafficking; removes specified necessities for an individual convicted of drug felony to obtain advantages. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
HB 441 by Rep. Taylor Michael Yarkosky — Cardiac and medical emergencies on faculty grounds: Citing this act because the “HeartCharged Act”; requiring every public faculty to have no less than one automated exterior defibrillator on faculty grounds; encouraging every constitution faculty and personal faculty to have no less than one defibrillator on faculty grounds and to adjust to specified necessities; offering immunity from legal responsibility for varsity workers and college students beneath the Good Samaritan Act and the Cardiac Arrest Survival Act; requiring the Commissioner of Schooling, at his or her sole discretion, to create and disseminate specified protocols and plans referring to the usage of defibrillators in faculties, and many others. Efficient Date: July 1, 2024
HB 459 by Rep. Joel Rudman — Declarations of a public well being emergency: Gives that administration of vaccines isn’t included inside that means of phrases “deal with,” “handled,” or “remedy” as they relate to public well being emergencies; revises provisions associated to expiration & renewal of declarations of public well being emergency; authorizes particular person to refuse examination, testing, or remedy beneath State Well being Officer’s order throughout public well being emergency by submitting written refusal to State Well being Officer; requires due course of on a case-by-case foundation to permit actions that have an effect on total teams or communities. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
HB 493 by Rep. Spencer Roach — Pharmacy: Authorizes registered pharmacy technicians to dispense medicinal medicine beneath sure circumstances; defines phrases “supervising pharmacy” and “telepharmacy”; offers necessities for remote-site pharmacies; exempts registered pharmacists serving as prescription division managers for remote-site pharmacies from sure observe limitations. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
HB 491 by Rep. Gonzalez Pittman — Entry to applicable drugs for extreme psychological sickness: Requires AHCA to approve drug merchandise for Medicaid recipients for remedy of great psychological sickness with out step-therapy prior authorization; directs company to incorporate the speed impression of this act in particular program charges that turn into efficient on specified date. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
HB 499 by Rep. Lauren Melo — Congenital cytomegalovirus screening: Requires sure hospitals to manage congenital cytomegalovirus screenings on newborns admitted to hospital beneath specified circumstances; offers protection beneath Medicaid program for screenings and any medically vital follow-up reevaluations; requires newborns recognized with congenital cytomegalovirus be referred to main care doctor for medical administration, remedy, & follow-up providers. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
HB 571 by Bruce Hadley Antone — Florida medical faculty scholarship and grant program: Establishes Florida Medical Faculty Scholarship & Grant Program inside Florida Schooling Fund; offers necessities for program and fund. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
HB 547 by Rep. Thad Altman — Dentistry: Deletes function of the Board of Dentistry within the administration of licensure examination for dentists and requirement for the Board to ascertain an examination charge; revises necessities for licensure as dentist; deletes time limitation on validity of licensure examination outcomes; deletes requirement candidates for licensure interact in full-time observe of dentistry inside geographic boundaries of this state for one yr after licensure; revises persevering with schooling necessities for dentists. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
HB 561 by Rep. Daryl Campbel — Finish-of-life choices: Establishes process to permit an grownup who has psychological capability and who has a terminal situation and who makes a completely knowledgeable choice that they not need to dwell to get remedy to finish their life; offers necessities for well being care suppliers, well being care services and DOH. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
HB 567 by Rep. Dotie Joseph — Medicaid enlargement via a Medicaid buy-in program: Requires AHCA to ascertain and implement Medicaid buy-in program for specified people with disabilities; offers necessities for this system; requires the company to hunt by specified date federal waiver approval or submit any state plan amendments essential to implement this system. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
HB 569 by Rep. Fiona McFarland — Fits Towards the Authorities: Abolishes common-law doctrine of dwelling venue privilege concerning motion in opposition to state; will increase statutory limits on legal responsibility for tort claims in opposition to the state and its companies and subdivisions; authorizes subdivision of state to settle claims over statutory restrict with out additional motion by Legislature no matter insurance coverage protection limits; prohibits insurance coverage coverage from conditioning fee of advantages on enactment of declare invoice; specifies limitations in impact on date last judgment is entered apply to that declare; requires DFS to regulate limitations on tort legal responsibility yearly after the required date; revises a interval inside which particular claims should be current to sure entities; revises exceptions referring to instituting actions on tort claims in opposition to the state or one in every of its companies or subdivisions; revises the interval after which failure of sure entities to make the ultimate disposition of declare shall be deemed a last denial of declare; revises restrict on sure legal professional charges; revises statute of limitations for tort claims in opposition to state or one in every of its companies or subdivisions & exceptions thereto. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
HB 653 by Rep. Daniel Antonio Alvarez — Motorized vehicle insurance coverage: Repeals provisions referring to the appliance of Florida Motor Automobile No-Fault Regulation; revises the requirement for proof of safety on a motorized vehicle; revises motorized vehicle insurance coverage coverages that the applicant should present to register autos with DHSMV; revises storage legal responsibility insurance coverage necessities for motorized vehicle vendor license candidates; revises minimal legal responsibility protection necessities for motorized vehicle house owners or operators; revises authorized legal responsibility of uninsured motorist protection insurer; revises required coverages for motorized vehicle insurance coverage coverage; requires that motorized vehicle insurance coverage insurance policies present loss of life advantages offers appropriation. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
HB 657 by Rep. Johanna Lopez — Documentation standing for well being care providers: Gives licensed not-for-profit companies and organizations will not be required to request citizenship, residency, alien, or immigration standing of any affected person. Efficient date: July 1, 2024.
HB 659 by Rep. Shane Abbott — Well being plans: Prohibits well being plans from declining to participate in filed claims; offers defaults in opposition to well being plans for failure to reply; requires well being plans to pay suppliers quantities offered in declare dispute orders beneath sure circumstances; requires prescription drug benefits-ID playing cards and medical insurance and HMO ID playing cards to incorporate specified info. Efficient date: Jan. 1, 2025.
— LOBBYISTS —
David Childs, Kyle Langan, Andrew Liebert, Chad Revis, Eileen Stuart, The Vogel Group: CareSource Mission
Mike Moore, The Southern Group: Creation Well being
Timothy Stapleton, Gunster Yoakley & Stewart: Concierge Dwelling Care
— ETC —
— Hospitals’ whole labor prices for affected person care elevated considerably in 2020 and 2021 — the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. On the nationwide degree, labor prices per adjusted hospital discharge grew by 18% throughout this era, starting from zero to 31% throughout states, in response to a brand new research printed by Mathematica. Extra here.
— AdventHealth Orlando is asking AHCA to waive the necessities of hospital licensure guidelines concerning registered nurses searching for to ship care via a brand new know-how platform in step with the acute care at dwelling mannequin. The petition was assigned case quantity 2023016983. Extra here.
— Can a nursing dwelling have on its premises a set bin maintained by a retail pharmacy the place managed substances will be dropped off for destruction? Traditional Residence Administration Restricted Partnership d/b/a Vi has filed a petition with the Florida Board of Pharmacy searching for an advisory opinion whether or not the association violates a rule that requires these drugs to be securely saved by the nursing dwelling till destroyed. The rule bans unused managed substances from being returned to the nursing dwelling’s pharmacy.
— ROSTER —
Allison Baker has been named vice chairman of growth for Nicklaus Kids’s Well being System and president of the Nicklaus Kids’s Hospital Basis. On this function, Baker leads a group of growth professionals who work with donors and supporters to lift funds that assist Nicklaus Kids’s mission of delivering world-class pediatric care to youngsters in South Florida, all through the area and throughout the globe.
HCA Florida Healthcare JFK and JFK North Hospital are happy to introduce new Board members Dr. Tunjarnika L. Coleman-Ferrell, Dr. Fabiana DesRosiers and Veronica Vidal. Coleman-Ferrell, EdD., is the vice chairman of educational affairs at Palm Seaside State Faculty. DesRosiers lately served because the Chief Govt Officer of The Heart for Household Providers of Palm Seaside County and is now the Chief Govt Officer of the Hispanic Human Sources Council in West Palm Seaside. Vidal is the Founder and CEO of Customized Cleansing and Administration Providers (CCMS), a cleansing contractor headquartered in Palm Seaside County.
— ICYMI —
In case you missed them, here’s a recap of different essential well being care coverage tales coated in Florida Politics this previous week.
Claims in opposition to the state: The oft-criticized claims invoice course of may very well be upended beneath laws proposed by a pair of Republican legislators. Sen. Jason Brodeur and Rep. Fiona McFarland have filed payments that will possible get rid of the necessity for a lot of claims payments by permitting native governments and state companies to repay authorized settlements exceeding the state’s sovereign immunity limits with out getting legislative approval.
Drown proof: Two Florida legislators, pointing to statistics that present that drowning is the main explanation for loss of life amongst younger youngsters within the Sunshine State, need to create a brand new voucher program that may supply swimming classes to low-income households.
We need to know: The AHCA on Monday printed a proposed modification to its licensure rule that will require licensure utility types for nursing properties, assisted residing services, dwelling well being companies, and homemaker/companion service suppliers to incorporate information on pay, profit, emptiness and turnover charges for registered nurses and direct care employees, a time period that features licensed nursing assistants (CNAs), dwelling well being aides, and private care assistants.
Extra pharmacy modifications? Republican Sen. Tom Wright and Democratic Rep. Lindsay Cross have filed laws requiring copay assist funds to depend towards sufferers’ medical insurance deductibles.
— FOR YOUR RADAR —
Apart from protection by Florida Politics, these tales are price your time.
“What would a DeSantis presidency look like for health care?” by way of Romy Ellenbogen and Christopher O’Donnell of the Tampa Bay Occasions — His file as Florida’s Governor suggests a presidency that will prioritize particular person freedom over public well being, however his push for such freedoms ends for abortion and remedy for gender dysphoria. In Florida, he has pushed restrictions on these medical providers. Critics contend these have been the fallacious priorities in a state the place 7.4% of youngsters had no medical insurance coverage as of 2022. Since then, over 250,000 Florida youngsters have misplaced their medical insurance via Medicaid. DeSantis as President would possible downplay the significance of the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, which is an advisory physique, and as a substitute may require states to speculate extra in public well being infrastructure, stated Jay Wolfson, a public well being professor on the College of South Florida.
“Joe Biden campaign attacks Donald Trump’s Obamacare threat with help from Nancy Pelosi” by way of Skylar Woodhouse and Gregory Korte of Bloomberg — Biden’s marketing campaign seized on Trump’s name to overturn Obamacare, utilizing it to solid the Republican as a risk to People’ well being advantages forward of a probable rematch with the President. “The previous President reminded us he’s hellbent on destroying the Reasonably priced Care Act,” former Home Speaker Pelosi stated on a name organized by Biden’s marketing campaign. “When he says he’s going after our well being care, consider him as a result of he’s finished it earlier than.” One other marketing campaign surrogate, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, joined Pelosi, as the 2 criticized Trump for his newest risk to repeal Obamacare if he wins a second time period.
“Florida leaves $800 million on the table for disability services, advocates say” by way of Jeffrey Schweers of the Orlando Sentinel — Florida officers chargeable for offering providers to individuals with lifelong disabilities have allowed almost $800 million in state and federal matching funds to fall via the cracks prior to now two years. The advocates say that’s sufficient to present the 23,000 individuals on a ready checklist maintained by the Company for Individuals with Disabilities the essential providers they should dwell with their problems, which embrace autism and cerebral palsy. The cash may very well be used for medical remedy, remedy, housing, and to assist individuals keep independence and keep out of establishments. The 34,000 individuals who obtain these providers — a quantity that has modified little in twenty years — face cuts annually to the providers that assist them dwell fuller lives.
“All Children’s seeks retrial in Maya case, claims juror misconduct” by way of Christopher O’Donnell of the Tampa Bay Occasions — Almost two weeks after a jury awarded $261 million in damages in opposition to Johns Hopkins All Kids’s Hospital, its attorneys on Wednesday filed for a retrial in a movement that accused the jury foreman of violating strict conduct guidelines in the course of the trial. In a movement filed in Sarasota County, hospital attorneys claimed that in the course of the trial, juror Paul Lengyel shared details about the case together with his spouse, who then shared it on social media platforms. Yolanda Lengyel attended no less than someday of the trial in Venice, that means she might have heard legal professional discussions with the decide outdoors of the jury’s presence, the movement states.
“Local Jacksonville hospital safety grades: 7 area hospitals get A’s, four others get C’s” by way of Anne Maxwell of News4Jax — The grades, printed twice a yr by nonprofit well being care watchdog The Leapfrog Group, are based mostly on information about infections, surgical procedure and security issues, employees and the way hospitals work to forestall errors. Out of the 14 hospitals within the native space, seven acquired A’s, together with main Jacksonville hospitals UF Well being, Mayo Clinic, and Baptist Medical Heart Jacksonville. Baptist Well being acquired A’s for all 4 of their native hospitals. “It’s fairly an honor,” stated Baptist Well being President and CEO Michael Mayo. “What I take into consideration is that each affected person, their household, and their family members entrust their lives to us on daily basis when their lives are interrupted by sickness and harm. And we don’t take that flippantly.”
— PENCIL IT IN —
Thursday
Glad birthday to Reps. Bob Rommel and Yvonne Hayes Hinson.
9 a.m. — The Division of Kids and Households, Substance Abuse and Psychological Well being Program Workplace meets. Digital assembly hyperlink here.
2:45 p.m. — State leaders focus on the highest well being care points impacting the state of Florida. Michael Nachef of Lee Well being leads the dialogue with panelists, together with state Sen. Brodeur, Florida Hospital Affiliation President and CEO Mary Mayhew, Dr. Eduardo Alfonso, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, and Dr. Robert Keiser, Keiser College. The occasion is at Ponte Vedra Inn & Membership, 200 Ponte Vedra Blvd, Ponte Vedra.
Saturday
Glad birthday to Sen. Debbie Mayfield.
Sunday
Glad birthday to Sen. Keith Perry.
Monday
3:30 p.m. — The Home Choose Committee on Well being Innovation meets. Room 17, Home Workplace Constructing.
Tuesday
11:30 a.m. — Home Speaker Paul Renner is the featured speaker on the Capital Tiger Bay Membership. Donald L. Tucker Civic Heart, 505 W. Pensacola St., Tallahassee. Register here.
2 p.m. — The Senate Well being Coverage Committee meets and can think about a pair of payments by Sen. Brodeur (SB 66 and SB 185) and can hear a presentation on Florida’s Neighborhood Partnership Colleges program. Room 412, Knott Constructing.
4 p.m. — The Home Kids, Households & Seniors Subcommittee meets and can think about HB 0073 concerning supported decision-making authority and HB 185 concerning dependent youngsters. Room 102, Home Workplace Constructing.
Wednesday
2 p.m. — The Senate Appropriations Committee on Well being and Human Providers meets and can hear displays on the Governor’s proposed fiscal yr 2024-2025 funds suggestions for social providers and Medicaid. Room 412, Knott Constructing.
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Prognosis is written by Christine Jordan Sexton and edited by Drew Wilson and Phil Ammann.
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