According to a White House spokesperson President Obama’s administration has not and will not deviate from the original set of goals on the health care reform. Nor will the administration dissociate itself from a government run public health insurance option. The news media has insisted that Obama and his administration were ready to ditch the [...]

The Health insurance carrier Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida has ordered that mental health care providers must get prior authorization for the visit, except in emergencies, before treating patients. This has been the policy for HMO holders for a while but it is now a new requirement for millions of Floridians and is [...]

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act effective in February through the Health Resources Services Administration was granted an extra $851 million in June. Health centers in the state of Florida received $41,038,000 in CIP funding. The grants were dispersed to 50 federally authorized health center grantees in Florida and 1,100 across the nation. These funds [...]

Sean Shaw, Insurance Consumer Advocate is demanding that state regulators find out which health care plans working in Florida have been using a pay scale that deceives patients into paying more on their doctor’s bill when they receive treatment outside of their health insurance network. According to Shaw, millions of people were cheated out of [...]