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MEDICAID REFORM BACKGROUND
Medicaid Reform Fact Sheet [Florida CHAIN]
10 Reasons Why Florida Must Rework the Medicaid Reform Experiment, Not Expand It [Florida CHAIN]
WEBINAR POWERPOINT: What Florida Needs to Know Before Consider Expansion and NOTES TO ACCOMPANY THE POWERPOINT [Florida CHAIN]
Webinar Follow Up Questions and Answers [Florida CHAIN]
False Panic About Medicaid Spending Trends Built on Obsolete Projections [Florida CHAIN]
Issue Brief: Medicaid Reform Expansion Into Miami Dade Still Too Risky [Florida CHAIN]
Serious and Persistent Stakeholder Concerns Make Strong Case Against Expansion [Florida CHAIN]
Health Plans' Persistently Consumer-Unfriendly and Divergent "Preferred Drug List" Posting Practices Exemplify Unresolved Challenges in Medicaid Reform [Florida CHAIN]
MEDICAID REFORM EVALUATIONS
UF Cost Savings Claim False and Misleading
UF's Medicaid Reform Evaluation on Spending Growth Troublesome
Medicaid Reform: Reform Provider Network Requirements Same as Traditional Medicaid; Improvements Needed to Ensure Beneficiaries Have Access to Specialty Providers, Report No. 08-64, November 2008 [OPPAGA]
Florida's Experience with Medicaid Reform: What has been learned in the first two years? [Georgetown University]
Is the Medicaid Reform Experiment Saving Florida Monday? [Florida CHAIN]
Desperate Attempt at Reform Woefully Deficient [Florida CHAIN]
Program Review of the Medicaid Reform Pilot Project [Office of Inspector General, 9/07]
Florida Medicaid Reform Evaluation Website [Univeristy of Florida]
Florida’s Medicaid Reform Pilot Programs: Challenges with Mental Health Services [Georgetown]
Medicaid Pilots at One Year: How is the new Medicaid marketplace faring? [Georgetown]
Uncertain Access to Needed Drugs: Florida's Medicaid Reform creates challenges for patients [Georgetown]
Waving Cautionary Flags: Initial reactions form doctors and patients to Florida's Medicaid changes [Georgetown]
Medicaid Changes: What will they mean for Broward and Duval and beyond? [Georgetown]
Georgetown website with all reports
MEDICAID REFORM MEDIA COVERAGE
Medicaid Reform interview with Florida CHAIN's Executive Director [WLRN Pubilc Radio]
Florida Agency recommends expansion of Medicaid pilot program despite Gov. Crist's request to cut agency budgets [Kaiswer Daily Health Policy Report, 10/22/08]
Study examines choice, understanding among Florida Medicaid beneficiaries participating in pilot program [Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, 10/14/08]
AHCA: Request to expand Reform isn't what it appears" [Florida Health News], 10/20/08]
"AHCA seeks expansion of Medicaid Reform to 20 counties" [Florida Health News,10/19/08]
"Mental health care experiment faulted" [Sun Sentinel, 5/23/08]
"Higher copays, fewer services, more fraud; Our opinion: First, ensure Medicaid Reform in an improvement" [Miami Herald, 3/14/08]
"Stay the course, don't expand Medicaid reform yet, evaluator says" [Florida Health News, 3/6/08]
"HHS Failed To Show Budget Neutrality Before Approving Florida, Vermont Medicaid Waivers, GAO Report Finds" [Kaiser Health Policy Report, 3/4/08]
"Medicaid Reform may come to Miami Dade; Advocates call for change [Florida Health News, 2/28/08]
"Medicaid still under stress but reform in Duval needs more study" [Dr. Andrew Agwunobi, Times Union Op-Ed, 2/22/08]
"Florida's Medicaid reform has flaws" [Sherri Magill,Times Union Op-ed, 2/14/07]
"Medicaid project- a flawed experiment" [Miami Herald Editorial, 1/29/08]
"Fix the Medicaid fix" [Palm Beach Post Editorial, 12/24/07]
"State: Medicaid Reform not ready" [Associated Press, 12/7/07]
"Medicaid reform pilot program not working as expected" [South Florida Business Journal, 6/07]
Compilation of Comments on Medicaid Reform [Bob Sharpe, Florida Council on Community Mental Health]
ALTERNATIVES TO MEDICAID REFORM
AHCA on Medicaid Reofrm: It's Convenient
Synthesis of Stakeholder Roundtable Discussion on Alternatives to Reform: “Envisioning a Better Medicaid”
Summary of "Exploring Alternatives to Medicaid Reform" Symposium
CONSUMER EXPERIENCES WITH MEDICAID REFORM
Consumer Experience Case Study
Town Hall Meeting hosted by Rep. Schwartz
Go to 2007 Special Meetings and then select "Dec. 4 - Video"
Session 1:Video Clip
Summary of First Medicaid Roundtable
Session 2 Video Clip
Summary of Second Medicaid Roundtable
Session 3 Video Clip
CORRESPONDENCE TO AHCA ABOUT MEDICAID
Letter to AHCA and CMS about recipients wrongfully removed from prepaid mental health plans and denied choice on conversion of PSN to HMO
Implementation of involuntary Medicaid HMO enrollment procedures under HB5085 (Florida Legal Services, 7/17/08)
Failure to ensure available and accurate provider directories and preferred drug lists on line and failure to ensure adequate networks and timely access to specialists (Florida Legal Services, 8/3/07)
Reinstatement of MCAC (Florida Legal Services, 6/1/07)
Consumer experiences (Florida Legal Services and Florida CHAIN, 4/17/07)
Public records request and Medicaid reform complaints (Florida Legal Services and Florida CHAIN, 3/19/07)
MEDICAL CARE ADVISORY COMMITEE
MCAC Members
MEDICAID RESOURCES
Flyer for Broward Medicaid Reform Consumers on WellCare
Flyer for Duval Medicaid Reform Consumers on WellCare
Flyer for Members of NetPass and Access Health Solutions
Your Legal Rights If Medicaid or HMO Will Not Pay for Ongoing or New Prescription Drug
Information About Medicaid Prescription Drug Benefits
Updates on Medipass
Key Features to House Medicaid PCB
Florida's Medicaid Shell Game
CORRESPONDANCE RE: MEDICAID CUTS
Letter to CMS
Medicaid Expansion Brief
Medicaid Match Rates
Why The Legislature Owes Medicaid
Medicaid Stimulus Analogy
Medicaid Prescription Drug Roundtable
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