The Florida senate is considering cutting the state Medicaid budget even more than Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida House have proposed, according to a report by South Florida Business.
The Senate bill would cut Medicaid funding to Florida hospitals alone by $1.8 billion, and $720 million of that would come from safety-net hospitals.
The cuts would reduce Medicaid reimbursements by 10 percent, more than what the Florida House proposes and double a 5 percent cut proposed by new Gov. Scott.
The Senate bill would eliminate hospital services for 177,000 Floridians with catastrophic illness and eliminate funds for 42,000 elderly disabled people in the Medicaid for the Aged and Disabled program.
Read the South Florida Business Journal report on Florida Medicaid.
Read more coverage of Florida Medicaid and public hospitals.
- Florida House Passes Legislation to Shift Medicaid Recipients Into HMO-Style Plans
- Florida Gov. Rick Scott Starts Probe of Public Hospitals
The Senate bill would cut Medicaid funding to Florida hospitals alone by $1.8 billion, and $720 million of that would come from safety-net hospitals.
The cuts would reduce Medicaid reimbursements by 10 percent, more than what the Florida House proposes and double a 5 percent cut proposed by new Gov. Scott.
The Senate bill would eliminate hospital services for 177,000 Floridians with catastrophic illness and eliminate funds for 42,000 elderly disabled people in the Medicaid for the Aged and Disabled program.
Read the South Florida Business Journal report on Florida Medicaid.
Read more coverage of Florida Medicaid and public hospitals.
- Florida House Passes Legislation to Shift Medicaid Recipients Into HMO-Style Plans
- Florida Gov. Rick Scott Starts Probe of Public Hospitals