Medicaid

Many private and public health insurers won’t cover the $4,000-to-$8,000 expense of whole-genome sequencing. Florida now is among eight state Medicaid that programs do.

Without financial and legal planning done in advance, experts say aging seniors and their loved ones are left with fewer options in today's elder care system.

Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration this week disputed allegations that it has violated a federal judge's ruling in a battle about the state's attempts to prevent Medicaid coverage for hormone therapy and puberty blockers for transgender people.

Florida has been one of the most aggressive in this Medicaid redetermination process.

Attorneys for beneficiaries are asking for a preliminary injunction that would require reinstating coverage to people recently dropped from Medicaid and ending terminations until adequate information is provided.

Amid criticism from Democratic lawmakers and other groups, DeSantis administration officials went before a Senate committee Wednesday to discuss a process that has led to hundreds of thousands of people being dropped from the Medicaid program.

The plaintiffs are seeking an injunction that would require reinstating coverage to people and ending additional terminations until adequate information is provided.

Florida ranks 43rd in the nation for overall quality of long-term care for aging adults and people with disabilities, according to an AARP report.

Lawmakers have come to embrace the idea that expanded oral care saves money and has other health benefits. Nearly 30 states have begun offering or expanded care in the past three years.

Experts say the lack of help available to rural Americans in navigating insurance options puts them at greater risk of losing health coverage than people in metropolitan areas.

Enrollment totaled 5,254,460 people in August, down from 5,360,069 in July, according to data posted on the state Agency for Health Care Administration website.

The groups say the state's process for redetermining coverage eligibility is unfair to recipients who are Latino, immigrant or Black.