{"id":40889,"date":"2009-11-12T10:16:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T15:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"447336a4-262b-4a45-ad47-3e27e6a07c08"},"modified":"2009-11-12T10:16:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T15:16:32","slug":"florida-officials-say-medicaid-reimbursement-formula-will-drive-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/40889","title":{"rendered":"Florida Officials Say Medicaid Reimbursement Formula Will Drive Deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida state legislators have written to their U.S. Senators to urge them address\u00a0what they called a\u00a0&#8220;serious flaw&#8221; in the\u00a0formula that determines\u00a0of how much money\u00a0the state&#8217;s Medicaid program receives from the federal government, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthnewsflorida.org\/index.cfm\/go\/public.articleView\/article\/14938\" >Health News Florida<\/a> reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0letter, sent\u00a0Tuesday to U.S. Sens. Bill Nelson and George LeMieux,\u00a0cautioned that Florida would be on the hook for $668 million that it doesn&#8217;t have next year, or have to cut Medicaid benefits,\u00a0if Washington doesn&#8217;t act. &#8220;Florida received a significant bump in its\u00a0(Federal Medical Assistance Percentage)\u00a0when Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, but that increased contribution is slated to end Dec. 31, 2010. If the underlying formula isn&#8217;t addressed, Atwater said in his letter, Florida would have to spend an additional $668 million in state dollars to continue to fund Medicaid services at current levels.&#8221; A deficit in Florida could be as high as $2.6 billion soon, according to\u00a0the latest budget projections,\u00a0Health News Florida reports (Stexton, 11\/11).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/X0cGdy3T56I\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida state legislators have written to their U.S. Senators to urge them address\u00a0what they called a\u00a0&#8220;serious flaw&#8221; in the\u00a0formula that determines\u00a0of how much money\u00a0the state&#8217;s Medicaid program receives from the federal government, Health News Florida reports.\u00a0 The\u00a0letter, sent\u00a0Tuesday to U.S. Sens. Bill Nelson and George LeMieux,\u00a0cautioned that Florida would be on the hook for $668 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}