Robert Clark out of Miami Florida has been all over the state meeting with lawmakers and other government officials promoting a growing campaign funded by the Christian Science Church. He is seeking health insurancecoverage for prayer treatments. The prod at the federal level is to encourage putting prayer on the roster of treatments that private [...]
Harry Redi the Senate Majority Leader stated Monday that he will include a public health insurance plan in the final Senate overhaul legislation. This was a reversal from a few weeks ago when he discarded the idea, in an attempt to avoid estranging party moderates. It is still unknown if Reid has the votes necessary [...]
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 [...]
The President of Duval County Medical Society, R. Steven Lucie has stated that we have access to the best health care in the world but when it comes to quality care and health insurance we have an attitude like cost is no objective. Before America can establish significant health care reform it first must institute [...]
Laura Goodhue the Executive Director of the Florida Chain, states that the key to reform is aassuring citizens access to affordable health care with excellent quality. Also promising Americans that we can get meaningful and affordable health insurance coverage if you do not have it. It also requires that if you do have current good [...]
According to a state medical official in Tallahassee Florida 6 million people could become infected with the swine flu within a year if the flu follows the pattern on earlier pandemics. Florida medical officials have said that 10 people in the last three weeks have died due to the swine flu. That is a total [...]
Sarasota County in Florida implemented a no smoking policy for all of their employees. They require all of their new employees to sign a contract stating that they have not smoked in the past 12 months. The new employees are also required to submit a drug test for nicotine. The existing employees are allowed to [...]
Buying Florida health insurance can be done in many ways. If you want to achieve success quickly you should consider buying through a broker. Those who decide on this should realize that the Florida health insurance broker they choose is the key to their success. Remember, if you do not have the right broker you [...]