Lawmakers to look at membership-based primary care model

| 2/7/2017

Lawmakers to look at membership-based primary care model

What if you could pay for access to primary care physicians with a flat monthly fee, similar to how you pay for access to a health club? Under the radar, a concept known as “Direct Primary Care” is slowly finding favor among patients and physicians alike. [Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel]

Florida health care price project raises conflict concerns

Gov. Rick Scott’s pledge that Florida residents deserve to know what they pay for medical care through a better state website is generating national interest. A contract award for the price transparency project also is raising questions about potential bias favoring key players in the insurance industry. [Source: Naples Daily News]

As human trafficking numbers rise in Florida, hospitals train workers to fight it

Results of a new study detail a shocking rise in the number of people being affected by human trafficking – especially in the state of Florida. A number of hospitals here in Florida are now requiring health care workers to receive some type of human trafficking training to identify and treat victims. [Source: NBC Miami ]

Florida's confusing grey area for medical marijuana regulations

There’s a lot of confusion in Florida when it comes to medical marijuana – but new guidance is coming. There are existing laws, Amendment 2 that was passed by voters but still needs to go through the legislature, and somewhere in between, the Florida Department of Health is issuing rules. [Source: WMFE]

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Florida Supreme Court favors patients in hospital records dispute

The Florida Supreme Court recently decided a case which is critically important to Florida citizens who seek information about their physicians' qualifications. The history of implementing Amendment 7, known as the patients' right to know amendment, has been long and tortuous. [Source: Daily Business Review]

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Gov. Rick Scott and some legislators once again want to blow up the law that would make it necessary for hospitals to prove there is a need in the community for a service or another hospital. The result could be a free-for-all in a hospital competition that is already cut-throat in Florida.

› Obamacare supporters take over town hall meeting in Palm Harbor [Health News Florida]
Republican Rep. Gus Bilirakis held a town hall Saturday, to hear ideas about replacing the Affordable Care Act. But he was met with opposition as about every one of the 200 people gathered at The Centre of Palm Harbor were in support of Obamacare.

› Florida managed care contracting begins to move forward [WUSF]
Health plans that want to compete for contracts in Florida's Medicaid managed-care system face a Feb. 13 deadline for signaling their interest to the state Agency for Health Care Administration.

› Tidewell Hospice forms alliance with Pinellas nonprofit [Sarasota Herald-Tribune]
Two large hospice organizations on the west coast of Florida have formed a strategic alliance to "deal with the changing health care landscape through shared best practices, purchasing efficiencies and expanding their role in end-of-life care."

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