health care

Lawmakers have roughly three weeks to reach agreement on a budget, a period coinciding with an expected increase in Medicaid funding from the federal government.

The Chiles fund was created by the Legislature in 1999 at the request of then-Gov. Jeb Bush to provide perpetual support for health care programs and biomedical research.

The austere proposal would whack funding for hospitals and reduce spending on services meant to keep people with intellectual and developmental disabilities out of institutions.

The enrollment period will now end Aug. 15. The president was in Ohio to celebrate the anniversary of the health care bill and to promote the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.

Florida Covering Kids & Families was one of 30 “navigators” nationwide to receive additional federal funding for a 2021 special enrollment period.

The governor did not recommend Medicaid rate cuts for nursing homes or hospitals, pleasing those facilities. But other groups said the plan falls short in funding for people with developmental disabilities.

Anyone with lingering effects of COVID-19 should be extra careful in picking a 2021 plan, specialists say. You now have a preexisting condition. We offer some navagating tips.

Hospitals, a powerful political force in health care, fear lowering the eligibility age for Medicare will cost them billions of dollars because federal reimbursements are less than private insurance.

The volume of virtual appointments has exploded during the pandemic as patients and doctors have sought to avoid infection through in-person visits.

Strategists say the election isn’t about broad policy concerns such as health care or immigration. It’s about the coronavirus. And it's a very partisan issue.

Two fourth-year students at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine, and their faculty mentor, completed a recently-published study that suggests hospitals across Florida would save millions of dollars with the help of syringe exchange programs.

The pandemic has led medical schools to cancel many of the rotations in hospitals and clinics that students perform to see a broad mix of patients with a diverse mix of problems.