by Twyla Sketchley | Oct 22, 2013 | Financial Assistance
Beginning on August 1, 2013, Florida began transitioning Medicaid recipients receiving or applying for long term care benefits into the new Florida Medicaid Managed Care Long Term Care Waiver, also known as Medicaid reform. The transition began with Region 7, which...
by Twyla Sketchley | Oct 10, 2013 | Financial Assistance
On August 1, 2011, Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) submitted an application to the federal government’s Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requesting a waiver of federal Medicaid rules for the state. This waiver requested...
by Twyla Sketchley | Mar 7, 2013 | Financial Assistance
As someone who advocates for seniors everyday, I was disturbed by the Associated Press article running in many Florida papers February 24-25, 2013: “DCF: Medicaid paying nursing home bill for wealthy.” The article carried only information from a...
