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Scott: 129 Hospitals To Be Audited Over Contracts; Two Escambia Hospitals Included
August 25, 2015
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Gov. Rick Scott’s administration is continuing to ratchet up pressure on the hospital industry, with Scott saying Monday that 129 hospitals face audits related to Medicaid managed-care contracts.
Those hospitals include Baptist Hospital in Escambia County, being audited because they responded after the August 1 deadline, and West Florida Hospital, which is on a long list of hospitals being audited to verify compliance with state law because of the nature of the explanations they provided in their responses, according to the governor’s office.
Scott listed the hospitals in a letter sent to Attorney General Pam Bondi. The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration earlier this month said it was auditing 31 hospitals to determine whether their contracts with managed-care plans comply with a state law that limits payments to 120 percent of a Medicaid fee schedule. AHCA last month requested that hospitals and insurers certify compliance with the law.
by The News Service of Florida and NorthEscambia.com
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10 Responses to “Scott: 129 Hospitals To Be Audited Over Contracts; Two Escambia Hospitals Included”
Boy I’m glad I moved to Alabama Florida does some stupid stuff
REGARDING:
“You just agreed to settle with a Tallahassee attorney
That sued you for using private e-mails to conduct state business for
700 thousand dollars”
And according to Carl Hiaasen, the money is coming out of the fund we Floridians voted to be used to protect the Florida environment, Florida Forever, I think it is.
So he breaks the law and pays for it out of our pockets. Surely there’s a federal felony in there somewhere. If so, surely President Obama doesn’t love him too much to have the Attorney General on him.
For that matter, I know paying for breaking Florida law out of Florida funds is not covered in such a way as to permit it.
Get him, Bondi!
Or maybe he’s too good to my fellow Democrats to remove from office, driving people away from the other guys.
David for better governors
Sounds like payback for the hospitals that told Gov. Voldemort to get bent when he proposed his foolish profit-sharing scheme to balance the state budget after he turned against the Medicaid expansion (again).
Rick Scott = Modern day Huey P Long.
@Bill M– I agree wholeheartedly. However, i’ll go a step further to say that he knows how they work and practice from experience. It could be as simple as, ” I know what kind of pie you guys are making. If you don’t cut me a piece, i’ll kill the power to the oven”.
Glad I wasn’t the only one who saw the irony Gov. Scott’s new plan.
Someone needs to audit Gov Rick Scott for wasting 1.3 million dollars of our tax dollars to settle lawsuits against him for violating the Florida Sunshine law for open government. He broke the law and the tax payers have to pay for it. The Lawyers are making a killing.
I would appreciate it a lot more if you Gov Scott would stop wasting our tax
Dollars on your frivolous lawsuits and stop using our tax dollars to
Settle lawsuits against you for breaking the Florida Sunshine law for
Open Government. You just agreed to settle with a Tallahassee attorney
That sued you for using private e-mails to conduct state business for
700 thousand dollars. Scott agreed to settle case over the ouster of
Gerald Bailey head of FDLE for 55 Thousand dollars. And the state
Has paid 200 thousand dollars in legal fees and settlements for other
State officials. This is a million taxpayer dollars wasted. This money could
Have been spent better to help the citizens of Florida. Gov Scott Vetoes
A $ 2000 a year pay raise for the State Forestry Firefighters that have
To support their families on a base salary of 24 thousand dollars a year.
And then turns around and approves 2 million dollars for a sea wall
Around a golf course in orange county in south Florida.
I am Appalled that my tax dollars are being used to settle lawsuits
Against Gov Scott for violating Florida Sunshine open government
Laws . The Gov office has now revealed the total has reached
1.3 Million dollars. .
Bill M. on August 25th, 2015 8:39 am ,
Thank you for saying all that for me. Now, ALL I have to do is agree!
Exactly Bill , some people can get away with anything !
Isn’t this ironic! Gov. Flim Flam ran the largest Medicare scam in history, plead the 5th some 75 times and walked away with over 300 million for his dirty deeds and now the pot is going after the kettles. I guess he thinks they’re trying to get away with the things he got away with.