State Medicaid Profiles offer a dashboard of key MCO players and enrollment, recent policy actions, and pharmacy trends for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. This profile is ba…
In the face of reimbursement pressures and uncertainty, Florida's Medicare and Medicaid insurers have tweaked their offerings as part of strategies to continue enrollment growth while the state…
Job losses continued to drag down Florida’s commercial insurance market in 2010, with the self-insured rolls taking the largest hit, likely reflecting layoffs and attrition in the state’s biggest self…
Unable to reach a compromise between the House and Senate, Florida's state Legislature did not expand Medicaid Reform, which requires beneficiaries in certain counties elect to join an HMO or a Pr…
Florida's Medicaid program faces a massive reshaping as legislators grapple with a $2 billion budget deficit for the program. The Legislature is considering two options for the $18 billion program…
Florida Medicare Advantage plans are reacting to reduced reimbursements by scaling back benefits and raising costs to their HMO members for 2010. The change, which comes as the federal government is c…
The recession severely damaged Florida insurers in 2008 as the ranks of commercially insured members dropped by 1.2 million last year amid layoffs and benefit cuts at Florida businesses. Every signifi…
Florida delivers managed care services to Medicaid beneficiaries in many ways, and now it's looking at adding yet another delivery system. In the summer of 2010, the state plans to test a medical…
The struggling economy in Florida, burdened by the bust of the real estate and construction boom, resulted in enrollment losses in 2008 and is all but sure to continue into 2009. Insurers are reacting…
The small-group market in Florida posted 5 percent gains in enrollment at mid 2008, but the economic recession is likely to put a damper on small-group business in a state relying on the troubled indu…
Florida insurers are seeing a marked movement toward self-insured health benefit designs, and the worsening economy in the state could keep the momentum toward self insurance under way for some time….
Passage of the state's new Cover Florida program is likely to put some of the 3.8 million uninsured residents into health insurance, but critics question how much help the low-premium/limited bene…
The rapid growth of Florida's population is creating opportunities for the state's health insurers, who are targeting second-tier metropolitan regions such as Naples and Marco Island for new p…