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Waiver Advocates
Florida CHAIN
6600 Cypress Rd., Suite 508
Plantation, FL 33317
Phone: 954-791-7314
Fax: 954-583-5149
E-mail: lisam@floridachain.org
Web site: http://www.floridachain.org/
Florida Legal Services
2425 Torrey Drive
Tallahassee, FL 32302
Phone: 850-385-7900
Fax: 850-385-9998
Web site: http://www.floridalegal.org/
Resources on the Florida Waiver
Assessing Florida's Medicaid Reform Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute is conducting a two-year, independent evaluation of Florida's Medicaid waiver. The project team will release a series of papers on its findings during the course of the evaluation. As of July 2008, six papers have been released. (Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, July 2008)
Is the Medicaid Reform Experiment Saving Florida Money? examines whether Florida's Medicaid waiver actually saved as much money as the state reported. The report also questions whether the state used faulty numbers in calculating savings generated as a result of its Medicaid reform. (Florida CHAIN, July 2008)
"Reforming" Medicaid: How State Waivers Will Hurt Racial and Ethnic Minorities examines the potentially negative impact that recently proposed changes to the South Carolina and Florida Medicaid programs will have on minority health. This issue brief also explores the role of Medicaid in improving access to health care for racial and ethnic minorities and analyzes the threat that state Medicaid waivers pose to the health of minority populations. (Families USA, November 2005)
What Would Florida’s “Medicaid Choice” Waiver Proposal Mean for Children? An issue brief on how Florida’s Medicaid waiver would affect children in Medicaid. (Georgetown University Health Policy Institute Center for Children and Families, November 2005, Updated 2006)
Medicaid Policy Briefs: In an effort to educate consumers, stakeholders and policy-makers on the issues involved in Medicaid reform now underway in Florida, the Winter Park Health Foundation commissioned a series of policy briefs designed to shed light on the impact of various proposed changes. Part of a series called "Florida's Health at Risk," the briefs were authored by the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute.
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