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Families sue Florida Medicaid system
Physician Practice Advisor, November 30, 2005
Five families joined the Florida Pediatric Society and the Academy of Pediatric Dentistry in a lawsuit alleging that many poor and disabled children in Florida aren't given access to preventive healthcare and demanding reform of the Florida Medicaid system, reports The Sun-Sentinel.
"We are filing this action because Florida Medicaid isn't meeting its obligation," Dr. Luis St. Petery, executive vice president of the Florida Pediatric Society, said in an interview with The Sun-Sentinel. "By federal law, they are supposed to ensure that Medicaid children have the same access to care as the rest of Florida's children."
According to the lawsuit, more than 500,000 Medicaid-enrolled Florida children were furnished no preventive health-care services at all in fiscal year 2004. The lawsuit claims that Medicaid violates federal law because it sets reimbursement rates too low to keep healthcare providers in the program.
Click here to read The Sun-Sentinel article.
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