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Florida targets LOS cut for immigrants

Case Management Weekly, October 16, 2007

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Lawmakers in Florida have passed a budget that will cut hospital payments for legal aliens. The move limits coverage for poor, non-citizen immigrants to treatment for the stabilization of their condition. After that, they will no longer be eligible for Medicaid. Legislators, who said they anticipate savings of $14 million, did dampen projected cuts slightly, agreeing that hospitals could treat non-citizens after two days, if they still required emergency care.

But opponents were skeptical, arguing that projected savings might be wiped out by declining health standards and higher readmissions.

"We're going to pay for people with health conditions, one way or the other," local health lobbyist Karen Woodall told The Tampa Tribune. "I continue not to understand this setting up of different criteria for treating people based on their immigration status, when in fact they're in the country legally."

Sources: The Tampa Tribune and The Miami Herald

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