Upcoming Event: Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Medicaid Reform In Florida

October 15, 2008
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Marriott Tampa Airport
Tampa, Florida

• Final Agenda Now Available

Assessing Florida’s Medicaid Reform

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

Press Release announcing the project

Florida’s recently approved Medicaid waiver makes substantial and unprecedented changes to the state’s Medicaid program. These changes will be implemented on a pilot basis in Duval and Broward counties starting in July 2006. This project, conducted by researchers at Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute and funded by the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, entails a two-year evaluation of the waiver for both affected counties. 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 community health providers.

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