Florida’s health boards face a revolt by doctors, dentists and others refusing to pay what they call “outrageous” costs for their own prosecution in the wake of an appeals-court ruling.

Spending cuts to health programs will be less than half as much as forecast in the Senate budget, that chamber’s health-spending chief says, and the cuts won't come from pay to hospitals and nursing homes.

When doctors are charged with pill-trafficking, Florida lets them make bail and go right back to prescribing while awaiting trial – even if it takes years. An effort to prevent that ended Tuesday.

Surgeon Gen. Frank Farmer, a past president of Florida Medical Association, is locked in a friendly struggle with FMA over his desire to protect the public from dangerous doctors. Which way will the Legislature go?

The Florida Health Care Association says non-profit nursing homes may be unintentionally hurt by a bill intended to cap salaries in child-protection agencies that receive funding from the state.
 

After blasting it as anti-consumer and anti-doctor, a House justice panel nevertheless approved a PIP reform bill today so that the effort to fight auto-accident fraud wouldn’t die.

A workers' compensation bill aimed at holding down the cost of prescription drugs to employers passed the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee today. But there are many more steps to go.

Florida's unfolding plan to keep elderly and disabled Medicaid patients out of nursing homes through the use of HMOs faces a huge obstacle: a long waiting list for home and community-based services.

A bill aimed at giving the Surgeon General more power to stop doctors who over-prescribe narcotics passed its first House panel today, but only after a rewrite that took out the word "suspension."

The Department of Health would have greater authority to restrict practice rights of health professionals caught working in “pill mills”  under a bill being heard this morning.

Stock in Health Management Associates, a Naples-based hospital chain, lost more than 20 percent of its value this week following a series of recent events that included the general counsel's resignation.

The SEC filed charges against three former executives of Tampa-based WellCare Health Plans, saying they pocketed $91 million by artificially inflating the value of the company's stock.