The continuing growth in states’ Medicaid programs has placed a severe financial strain on state budgets. In fiscal year 2024, Medicaid was the largest category of total state spending, consuming 29.8 ...

CMS renewed Florida's section 1115 waiver requesting continuation of the state's Medicaid managed care program and low-income pool. Here are three things to know. 1. Under the renewal, roughly 3.4 ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is shifting its policy on Section 1115 Medicaid waivers. In letters to states released Thursday, the agency said it won’t extend or grant waivers for ...

Rick Scott, a former health care company CEO, campaigned on promises in 2010 to fight to repeal Obamacare and reform Medicaid with a waiver. Florida first received a waiver for the program in 2005 ...

On May 15, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a proposed rule, entitled “Preserving Medicaid Funding for Vulnerable Populations – Closing a Health Care-Related Tax ...

Florida Decides Healthcare has postponed its campaign to include a Medicaid expansion initiative on Florida’s 2026 ballot ...

Federal health officials are urging Florida legislators to require 85 percent of private Medicaid plan funds to go toward patient care, according to a Florida Independent report. State and federal ...

Holly Wimsatt, director of the Bureau of Disabilities Services within FSSA, said the agency is introducing new evaluation tools specifically designed for children and infants. She also said a ...

Advocates for bodily autonomy march to the Florida Capitol to protest a bill before the Florida Legislature to limit abortions on Feb. 16, 2022, in Tallahassee. (Photo by Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images) ...

TALLAHASSEE, — Federal health officials have approved a key part of Florida’s effort to transform its Medicaid program, clearing the way for tens of thousands of seniors across the state to move into ...

Incarceration is associated with well-documented, significant negative health impacts, both in terms of health disparities experienced by people who have been incarcerated and the systemic impacts of ...

This story has been updated with additional commentary from Sen. Scott Martin. State Senate Republican leaders are lobbying the Trump administration to rescind Medicaid waivers that expand social ...