Health Care Conundrum Re: Health care costly issue for candidates in the Oct. 7 edition of Hernando Today. ...more

October 16, 2008

Thirty percent of Floridians enrolled in Medicaid reform said they didn't realize it, and more than half didn't know they could opt out, a new report says. ...more

October 14, 2008

Federal authorities released details of what they call a scheme at WellCare Health Plans Inc. to defraud Florida health agencies of more than $20 million. ...more

October 7, 2008

The state of the economy is the uppermost concern of all Americans. ...more

October 6, 2008

A Leon County Circuit Court judge placed a Tampa-based Medicare Advantage plan with 16,000 members into receivership for the purpose of liquidation late Monday night. ...more

September 30, 2008

WellCare Health Plans Inc. will lay off 100 marketing and sales employees across Florida, company officials said Wednesday. ...more

September 11, 2008

TAMPA - WellCare Health Plans Inc. will lay off 100 marketing and sales employees across Florida, according to company officials. ...more

September 10, 2008

TAMPA - The former director of Adoption by Choice defrauded dozens of adoptive parents, overcharging them for unnecessary birthmother medical and living expenses, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. ...more

August 29, 2008

WellCare Health Plans Inc. and several other health care companies have notified Florida that they will pull out of a pilot program aimed at providing HMO-style health coverage for Medicaid recipients in two Florida counties outside the Tampa Bay area, state officials said Thursday. ...more

August 28, 2008

Medicare's top officials said in 2006 that they had reduced the number of fraudulent and improper claims paid by the agency, keeping billions of dollars out of the hands of people trying to game the system. ...more

August 21, 2008