Julio Ochoa
Julio Ochoa is editor of Health News Florida.
He comes to WUSF from The Tampa Tribune, where he began as a website producer for TBO.com and served in several editing roles, eventually becoming the newspaper’s deputy metro editor.
Julio was born and raised in St. Petersburg, and received a bachelor’s degree from Florida State University. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Colorado and worked at a paper in Greeley, Colo., before returning to Florida as a reporter and as breaking news editor for the Naples Daily News.
Contact Julio at 813-974-8633, on Twitter at @julioochoa or email .
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Florida's prisons have a health care problem. The state's aging prison population and the high cost of treating inmates with debilitating diseases are... -
39 Florida hospitals will get less money from Medicare this year because their patients had high rates of infections or other complications. -
Lawmakers are considering legislation this year that would provide more oversight of the state’s pediatric heart surgery centers. -
Florida Blue has won the first round of a lawsuit filed by a competitor seeking to stop the company from contracting exclusively with insurance agents. -
It's not even 6 a.m. when Amy and Christie begin a 45 minute drive south. The two friends are headed to a clinic in Hernando County where they’ll get a... -
The University of South Florida is recruiting 1,600 elderly volunteers to determine whether computer brain exercises can prevent dementia. -
Six disabled and elderly Floridians are suing the state over alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. -
A bill filed by Sen. Marco Rubio would change the way safety net hospitals are reimbursed for serving uninsured and Medicaid patients. -
The number of Floridians who enrolled in the Affordable Care Act this year increased by more than 55,000 compared to last year. -
Medicaid enrollees in Florida will have a much shorter window to apply thanks to a change approved by the federal government. But the reason given for...
