Assessing Florida’s Medicaid Reform

Joan Alker, M.Phil., Co-Principal Investigator
Jack Hoadley, Ph.D., Co-Principal Investigator

This project, conducted by researchers at Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute and funded primarily by the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, entails a two-year evaluation of Florida's Medicaid reform waiver. The evaluation includes a “before” and “after” assessment of key questions related to how the changes affect Medicaid beneficiaries’ ability to access needed care as well as the impact on health providers.

Press Release announcing the project

Final Report: Briefing 7

Florida's Experience with Medicaid Reform: What has been learned in the first two years?" (October 15, 2008)

• Brief
• Press release (PDF)

Conference: Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Medicaid Reform In Florida

October 15, 2008
Tampa, Florida

• Agenda, webcast and other materials

Other Project Publications and Webcasts

Briefing 6: The Enhanced Benefits Rewards Program: Is it changing the way Medicaid beneficiaries approach their health?
(July 24, 2008)

• Briefing (PDF)
• Press Release (PDF)

Briefing 5: Florida's Medicaid Reform Pilot Programs: Challenges with Mental Health Services
(May 22, 2008)

• Briefing (PDF)
• Supplemental Information (PDF)
• Press Release (PDF)

Briefing 4: Medicaid Pilots at One Year: How Is the New Medicaid Marketplace Faring?
(December 6, 2007)

• Briefing (PDF)
• Addendum (5/22/08)
• Presentation (PPT)
• Webcast

Briefing 3: Uncertain Access to Needed Drugs: Florida's Medicaid Reform Creates Challenges for Patients
(July 27, 2007)

• Presentation (PPT)
• Press Release (PDF)

Briefing 2: Waving Cautionary Flags: Initial Reactions from Doctors and Patients to Florida's Medicaid Changes
(May 8, 2007)

• Brief (PDF)
• Presentation (PPT)
• Profile of Responding Physicians (PDF)
• Survey Instrument for Briefing Paper #2

Briefing 1: Medicaid Changes: What will they mean for Broward and Duval counties, and beyond?
(September 2006)

• Brief

Related Publications and Links

• What will Florida's "Medicaid Choice" Waiver Proposal Mean for Children? (Updated Jan 4, 2006), Center for Children and Families, Georgetown University
  
  
• Issue briefs published by the Winter Park Health Foundation
  

1. What Could a Waiver to Restructure Medicaid Mean for Florida?
   (April 2004)
   
2. Florida's Medicaid Budget: Why are Costs Going Up?
   (July 2004)
   
3. Issues to Consider in Governor Bush's "Florida Medicaid Modernization Proposal"
   (March 2005)
   
4. Understanding Florida's Medicaid Reform Legislation
   (June 2005)
   
5. Understanding Florida's Medicaid Waiver Application
   (September 2005)
   
   

• Information from Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration