Physicians Unhappy With Managed Medicaid System, Report Finds

Health News Florida

By: Julia Ochoa

During an interview with Health News Florida, Joan Alker, executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University, discussed the report by CCF on Florida’s Medicaid Managed Care and the different issues and effects that have come up.

Since 2014, Florida’s Medicaid program has been run not by the state but through private insurance companies. The Sarasota Herald-Tribune has written about problems with the managed care system and a recent report from Georgetown University surveyed pediatricians to determine how they feel about the system.

Health News Florida Editor Julio Ochoa sat down with one of the report’s authors, Joan Alker, executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University.

Read more and listen to the interview here

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