Florida's economy has rebounded quickly and continues to outperform the nation in economic and labor market metrics. With our robust economic environment, many families have had an increase in income and the ability to obtain insurance through employment. This is welcome news for many families, an...
…The hospital tax is the biggest revenue-raiser, but 44 states also tax nursing homes, and 34 tax at least one other type of health-care provider. The GAO study found that these taxes had almost doubled nationally, from about $9.5 billion in 2008 to $18.5 billion in 2012. By the ...
Health information exchangeMeaningful useMedicaid Promoting Interoperability programOBJECTIVE :The objective of this study was to quantify the rate of provider participation beyond year 1 incentive in the Florida Medicaid Promoting Interoperability (PI) program, formerly the Electronic Health Record Incentive ...
EHRs are a type of health information technology. 30Encounter An encounter refers to any engagement, appointment, or delivered care between a Medicaid member and a provider of any kind, and in which a provider submits a claim thereafter. Valuable in shaping future policy, data collected from ...
Measuring access to care: improving information for policymakers. Health Aff (Millwood). 1998;17(1):180-186. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.17.1.180 19. Ohio Department of Medicaid. Ohio medical assistance provider agreement for managed care plan. State of Ohio. Updated January 2016. Accessed May 5, ...
Medicare and Medicaid expert witnesses may also be brought in for cases involving medical malpractice, as some healthcare provider and physicians may face a lawsuit as a result of violating healthcare ethics and health insurance policies. Health information management, regulatory compliance, and regulato...
15,16 Finally, it seems likely that state policy decisions would result in provider payment generosity for CHIP-only state programs being either unrelated or positively rather than negatively correlated with Medicaid payment generosity across states. Year fixed effects were included in both models to ...
This made little sense to JeanBart, who said her son was previously set for Medicaid renewal in July 2024. She called and emailed his health plan provider, Sunshine Health, as well as state agencies. JeanBart said representatives at all three groups told her Gianni's coverage was safe. A ...
Another way of committing fraud is to impersonate a licensed provider. For example, in 2022, a Texas woman was accused of using her ex-husband’s provider number to submit fraudulent claims to Medicaid for counseling services that were never provided, receiving more than $600,000 in fraudulent ...
This study examined the association between provider continuity and the risk of SCD-related hospitalization and re-hospitalization within 30 days of discharge. Methods A retrospective cohort study was conducted using Florida Medicaid claims data from 2001-2005. Patients with claims containing SCD-related...