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Ex-Jacksonville
nursing home owner wins $20 million from state
JACKSONVILLE — A former nursing home operator won a $20 million judgment
against the state Thursday after a jury found the Florida Agency for
Health Care Administration illegally confiscated his 180-bed facility.
Jack Carter sued the state after it placed Southlake Nursing and
Rehabilitation Center into receivership because of unpaid bills and
missing Medicaid payment records. 7/19/02
This
is nothing to smile about -- Claude Godwin, a dentist who practices in
Daytona Beach, was upset the other day when he received the letter from
the state Agency for Health Care Administration.--
The letter said that as of July 1, the state will no longer pay for
denture work and many other treatments for adult Medicaid patients.6/15/02
Senate
panel to scrutinize Medicaid fraud
Lawmakers want the state Agency for Health Care Administration to
explain why so much money is lost.
Insurance
a problem for nursing homes
Most of Florida's nursing homes will be able to meet new legislative
requirements on the staff/patient ratio by the Jan. 1 deadline,
according to the Florida Health Care Association. However, of the
homes that responded to a recent survey, one in five won't make that
same deadline for getting liability insurance, an association official
said Monday.
Audit
faults state agency over Medicaid fraud
It could do more to curb fraud and recover money, it says. An official
disagrees.- In fact, AHCA may have lost between $445-million and
$890-million last year on Medicaid fraud alone. Not only has that
contributed to budget woes, AHCA has done too little to recover that
money, auditors wrote.9/15
Law
to oversee HMOs falls flat
In 1996, the Florida Legislature passed a law creating statewide citizen
committees to investigate patient complaints against their HMOs. Five
years later, the program is barely working -- with only four of the 11
special "ombudsman" committees operating in 15 of 67 counties.
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