KPVI 6 News
By: John Haughey
During the 2018 legislative session, Florida lawmakers approved a measure that directs the state’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) to seek authorization from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to eliminate the 90-day retroactive eligibility period for non-pregnant adults beginning July 1, 2019.
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During the session and in its wake, Democrats and health-care providers claimed the new policy would have repercussions on seniors and people with disabilities and would affect more than 39,000 people. “I would say that Governor [Rick] Scott’s Medicaid numbers should be carefully and independently analyzed,” said Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families who has extensively studied Florida’s Medicaid program, said in an April tweet. “I certainly regard them with a healthy degree of skepticism.”
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