Tampa Bay Online
January 22, 2012
The federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services is being asked to grant Florida a waiver to expand a managed-care experiment for Medicaid recipients across the state. I am urging the federal government to deny the waiver.
The Florida Legislature’s planned conversion of Medicaid into private managed-care plans has the backing of the for-profit HMO industry. If the CMS agrees, the plan is to expand statewide the Medicaid Reform managed-care pilot project that since 2006 has been tested in Broward County and several other counties.