The federal government has stopped reimbursing a Miami doctor who wrote nearly 97,000 prescriptions for mental health drugs to Medicaid patients over a period of 18 months, in a case that prompted a key senator to call for a nationwide investigation. ...more

December 20, 2009

MIAMI (AP) — The federal government has stopped reimbursing a Miami doctor who wrote nearly 97,000 prescriptions for mental health drugs to Medicaid patients over 18 months, in a case that prompted a key senator to call for a nationwide investigation. ...more

December 17, 2009

The state has spent about $2 million defending a class-action lawsuit that claims Florida is violating federal Medicaid requirements by providing inadequate medical and dental care to more than 1 million children. ...more

December 7, 2009

Rep. Ed Homan of Tampa rolled out a plan Wednesday that he said would expand Florida's thinning ranks of doctors while improving care of local Medicaid patients. ...more

April 2, 2009

Florida lawmakers made some of the final decisions Saturday on cutting $2.4 billion from the state budget, making painful and politically controversial cuts in programs that range from preserving environmental land to providing elderly people in-home living assistance. ...more

January 11, 2009

Gainesville's first community hospital has been on life support since the Shands Healthcare system in northern Florida bought it a dozen years ago. ...more

December 29, 2008

When the last state administration rolled out a Medicaid reform plan in 2005, proponents painted a bright picture of choice, quality and cost containment. As the Tribune noted ("Weakness in Medicaid Reform Portends No Expansion," Our Opinion, Oct. 28), the bright claims now ring hollow. ...more

November 6, 2007

For American dentists, times have never been better. The same cannot be said for Americans' teeth. ...more

October 11, 2007