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Some face legal challenges, such as a bill that would prevent abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
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It would include puberty blockers, hormones and sex-assignment surgeries for both youth and adults.
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AHCA, which runs most of the Medicaid program, published a proposed rule and set a July 8 hearing on the issue. National and state legal and LGBTQ-advocacy groups have vowed to fight the proposal.
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The 7-2 decision involved a teen who suffered catastrophic injuries after being hit by a truck in 2008 and how much money Medicaid should be able to recover. The case has drawn attention from officials across the country.
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Groups criticized a report that the Agency for Health Care Administration is using as a basis for the expected effort to deny Medicaid coverage for the treatments.
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AHCA will start a rule-making process related to treatments for gender dysphoria, saying they are “not consistent with generally accepted professional medical standards and are experimental.”
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The 10-year-old case surrounds a lawsuit filed by the Justice Department after the agency accused Florida of unnecessarily institutionalizing children with disabilities in nursing homes.
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Florida's largest Medicaid vendor had until Thursday to dispute the penalty imposed last month by the state Agency for Health Care Administration, leaving the company with one option: pay the fine.
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Among the other measures awaiting the governor's pen was a proposal that would broaden doctors’ ability to prescribe controlled substances through telemedicine.
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Tom Wallace, an AHCA deputy secretary, says that state and federal officials have had “back and forth” since December about proposed changes in what is known as a waiver that plays a critical role in the Medicaid program.
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The chambers are split over part of the bill that deals with disputes between managed-care plans and “essential” providers, such as children’s hospitals and teaching hospitals.
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Perhaps the most controversial part of the proposal, which was approved by the House Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee, centers on how dental services would be provided to Medicaid beneficiaries.