Florida DCF began limiting Medicaid to citizens, green card holders, Cuban and Haitian entrants and COFA migrants. Refugees, asylees and humanitarian parolees outside those groups lost eligibility.
Community Health Northwest Florida reopened five more sites after closing every location for Hurricane Isaias on October 9. Reduced staffing may limit services. Pharmacies at Jackson Street, Milton and Bayou Boulevard are open.
The Florida Department of Health held a public hearing on proposed changes to its school and child care vaccine rule. The proposal drops hepatitis B, varicella, Hib and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines from entry requirements.
Florida Medicaid lifted early refill limits on maintenance medicines for recipients in the 25 counties affected by Tropical Storm Isaias. Controlled substances are excluded.
Florida's minimum wage rose to $15.00 an hour, the level voters set in a 2020 constitutional amendment. Tipped workers must get a direct wage of at least $11.98.
Florida Atlantic University said its FAU/NCHA Community Health Center in West Palm Beach won an HRSA New Access Point award and is now a federally funded FQHC.
Hillsborough County Administrator Bonnie Wise signed an order declaring a local state of emergency over dengue fever. The order lasts seven days unless extended and opens a path to federal reimbursement of certain costs.
Health News Florida reported on September 14 that "the Florida Healthy Kids Corp., which helps administer Florida KidCare, subsequently told the Florida Phoenix that more than 17,000 children were disenrolled for failing to pay premiums. But that information…
Observed August 25, AHCA's official KidCare page says the program provides coverage to children in families up to 200% of the federal poverty level and lists $15 or $20 monthly family premiums for subsidized CHIP.
The Governor's August 11 release announces nearly $188 million across more than 80 awards in 31 rural counties and now links a three-page list with organization-level amounts.
AHCA's October 8 implementation update says SB 2500 appropriated $6,570,606 in recurring General Revenue and $8,784,865 in recurring Medical Care Trust Fund for equal FQHC/RHC rate increases effective October 1, 2025…
Healthcare Network says children ages 2–18 can receive a free finger-stick Type 1 diabetes risk screening at any of its pediatric locations or selected community events.
CHI's July 16 construction update says walls are going up at its future Children's Crisis Center, planned to provide behavioral-health crisis care for children and adolescents.
Healthcare Network announced a $45,000 Women's Foundation of Collier County grant for its Transitions of Care program serving uninsured and underinsured people with high-risk pregnancies and newborns in Immokalee and Golden Gate.
Healthcare Network announced a $30,000 AAPD Foundation grant for mobile preventive, restorative and specialized dental care at Autism Collier Charter School, including sensory accommodations and referral for care beyond the mobile unit.
Tampa Family Health Centers announced the grand opening of TFHC Swann at 2111 Swann Avenue, Suite 102, introducing the organization's first rheumatology service with one named board-certified rheumatologist and an onsite clinical pharmacist.
The July 29 report says a Tallahassee circuit judge denied the families' mandamus request without deciding whether Florida must ultimately implement the 2023 KidCare expansion from 200% to 300% of the federal poverty level…
WUSF reports that Polk County commissioners voted July 21 to raise the Polk HealthCare Plan income limit from 200% to 300% of the federal poverty level, reported as $99,000 for a family of four.
Observed August 25, OIR's official page includes a 2027 plan-year section and labels for individual premium, company-distribution and county-availability tables, but those 2027 labels are not active links; the public IRFS filing search remains available.
The Social Services Estimating Conference adopted county Medicaid contribution figures on July 16, 2026 after accounting for HB 5003-E. It set the statewide total at $419.5 million for FY2026-27 and forecast $451.3 million for FY2027-28.
In a June 27, 2025 first-party report, Jessie Trice Community Health System Inc. Said it had opened the Annie R. Neasman Teaching and Research Annex and officially launched its Family Medicine Residency Program on June 24 in partnership with the Jessie Trice…
Premier's live location page lists Dade City Behavioral Health & Pharmacy as ‘Coming Soon,’ anticipates opening in 2026 and names behavioral-health and pharmacy services, but provides no opening day or hours.
Community Health Centers reported June 1, 2026, that it had completed the expansion and renovation of its Apopka Family Health Center at 225 E. Seventh St. The project added 7,000 square feet, bringing the site to 19,500 square feet…
Community Health of South Florida, Inc. Says expanded funding from The Children's Trust increased its school-based footprint from 35 sites in 2024 to 58 in 2025, a net gain of 23 sites, or about 66%.
Tampa Family Health Centers, Inc. Announced the opening of a new Family Practice wing at TFHC Osborne with 10 additional exam rooms dedicated to family medicine.
Healthcare Network reported November 18, 2025, that its new pediatric clinic inside the NCH Immediate Care facility in Ave Maria was open and welcoming new and existing patients.
In its June 23 first-party notice, Pediatric Associates says it challenged AHCA's treatment of behavior-analysis costs in managed-care rate setting and alleges roughly a 15% reduction in core pediatric reimbursement in southern regions…
CMS's monthly effectuated-enrollment dataset reports 3,849,587 Florida Marketplace enrollees in February 2026 versus 4,292,372 in February 2025, a decline of 442,785, or 10.3%.
KFF's July 8 review of 77 preliminary 2027 ACA marketplace filings found a 14% median proposed premium increase, with 20 insurers requesting increases above 20%.
Florida Policy Institute projects that the combined expiration of enhanced ACA premium tax credits and H.R. 1's Medicaid changes will cause roughly 1.5 million Floridians (range 1.1–1.9 million) to lose health insurance…
AHCA's official Statewide Medicaid Managed Care page says the agency implemented SMMC 3.0 on February 1, 2025 and entered new contracts with health and dental plans.
HRSA's July 31 update and Federal Register notice required qualifying manufacturers to submit plans by August 24, 2026. That submission window has closed.
CMS's final national snapshots report 4,538,772 Florida plan selections for 2026 and 4,735,415 for 2025, a decline of 196,643, or 4.2%. Plan selection is not paid, effectuated coverage; the separate CMS monthly record in this feed measures that later stage.
In a February 9, 2024 post, the Florida Association of Community Health Centers said its analysis found that the Medicaid prospective payment rate for Florida FQHCs fell $106, or 42.2%, short of the actual cost of each Medicaid patient visit.
The current U.S. Code appropriates $4.6 billion to the Community Health Center Fund for FY2026 and another $1,159,452,055 for October 1 through December 31, 2026.
CMS's approved-preprint registry records up to $2,470,111,272 for October 1, 2024 through January 31, 2025 and up to $5,413,222,576 for February 1 through September 30, 2025 for inpatient and outpatient hospital services—a combined ceiling of $7,883,333,848.
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