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The measure would require the Medicaid program to pay Medicare deductibles and cost sharing for non-emergency transportation services.
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The bill would broaden the “scope of practice” for physician assistants, authorize them to prescribe 14-day supplies of psychiatric controlled substances for minors and bill insurers for services.
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A pair of new legislative proposals would place a 10 percent THC cap on smokable marijuana and limit THC levels to 16 percent in other medical-marijuana products, excluding edibles.
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Broward Health Medical Center is part of the North Broward Hospital District, which decided this week to hire Shane Strum, Gov. DeSantis’ chief of staff, as its CEO.
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Florida has seen a spike in Medicaid enrollment since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and the agency responsible for enrolling and disenrolling people in the health-care program is swamped.
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During a normal year, Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital diagnoses around 16% of children that have diabetes with Type 2 diabetes. Between March and October, they've already diagnosed close to 40% of patients with Type 2 diabetes.
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The increase in hospitalizations comes as the number of cases in the state continue to climb, despite Gov. Ron DeSantis’ push for a return to normalcy.
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The state took a deeper look at 95 COVID-19 deaths and in 16 cases, it found more than a two-month time frame between when people tested positive for COVID-19 and the actual deaths.
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A new report says COVID-19 cases in U.S. nursing homes jumped nearly 80% earlier this summer, driven by rampant spread across the South and much of the...
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As Florida schools reopen this month, district superintendents are calling on state officials to address two major challenges: the need for rapid testing for COVID-19 and a statewide plan to handle students and staff members who test positive.