Floridians without health insurance will have more options to choose from when the online marketplaces open on October 1, the Obama administration said.
By pooling and creating competition so that insurers have to go after people’s business the way they go after a group plan, we have drastically reduced premiums and costs.
Anna Marie Likos, MD, MPH has been named as the new Director for the Division of Disease Control and Health Protection., the Florida Department of Disease Control and Health Protection said Monday.
Gov. Rick Scott has long called the Affordable Care Act, the "biggest job-killer ever," yet he appeared to take credit for some 1,000 new jobs to be created by HealthPlan Services, a Tampa-based health care company.
Walgreens will no longer offer its workers health insurance directly in 2014, but instead shift them into policies in a private insurance exchange, the company announced Wednesday, cnn.com reported.
In the new model, Walgreens will subsidize the cost of the policies, but will transfer the risk to the insurers in...
Florida has about 3.8 million or nearly one-quarter of its population without health insurance and millions could end up paying $100 or less per person per month, according to a new report of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Florida Hospital officials and community leaders are set to break ground on the new medical facility in Winter Garden. Scheduled to open in Winter 2014.
More than 25 Florida organizations and businesses that have volunteered to help uninsured Americans learn more and get coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplace, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Friday.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott continues to face mounting criticism with his latest move to bar outreach workers, known as "navigators" from county health departments when enrollment begins on October 1, under the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.
SeaWorld will reduce the number of working hours of its part-time employees and thus avoid offering health care insurance under the new Affordable Care Act.
An Orlando doctor is one of twenty health care practitioners whose medical licenses have been restricted or suspended, the Florida Department of Health (DOH) said Thursday.
City of St. Cloud hosted a Healthy 4 Life Employee Health Care Center Ribbon Cutting/Grand Opening Ceremony Wednesday, at the new center located at 2950 Lakeshore Blvd. in St. Cloud
Florida has the second highest rate of uninsured in the nation, with 3.8 million residents lacking health care insurance, according to U.S. Census data released late last week.
With about four weeks from the start of a massive health-insurance enrollment campaign, a small army of paid “navigators” and volunteers remains unorganized, untrained and unclear about just how to accomplish the daunting mission of signing up Florida’s diverse population of uninsured consumers.
Florida Department of Health officials have confirmed a total of eight cases of dengue fever, with seven cases located in Martin County and one case in Miami-Dade County.
If Americans ate just one more serving of fruits or vegetables per day, this would save more than 30,000 lives and $5 billion in medical costs each year, according to a 2013 Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) report, The $11 Trillion Dollar Reward, released earlier this month.
The Florida Public Health Association (FPHA) will host their 2013 Annual Educational Conference, Public Health Professionals: The Link to a Healthy Florida from August 28th through August 30th at the Florida Hotel and Conference Center, 1500 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809.
Emeritus Senior Living, one of the largest Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs) in the country, with several communities in Florida, has agreed to pay up to $2.2 million to workers they have been underpaying for years.
State health officials are providing little assistance to Floridians with less than two months until enrollment opens, under the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare, say liberal advocacy groups in the state.
With only 35 percent of Floridians at a healthy weight, urgency is needed to address the state's weight challenge, the State Surgeon General and Secretary of Health Dr. John Armstrong said Wednesday.
Florida Shands Healthcare has agreed to pay the U.S. Department of Justice $26 million to settle false claims its facilities submitted to Medicare, Medicaid and other health care programs, the DOJ said Monday,
A woman in Stuart, Florida, who operated a wellness center has been arrested and charged with several counts of practicing in the health care profession without a proper license, Florida Department of Health (DOH) West Palm Beach-Unlicensed Activity (ULA) Unit announced Friday.
Nursing home workers at several facilities across Florida, picketed their employer, Healthcare Services Group (HSG), calling for a restoration in the number of working hours for employees, which have recently been cut.
A sky-blue Winnebago or "mobile clinic" makes monthly rounds downtown Baltimore promoting its DNA testing service, but some say such tests raises serious concerns about destabilizing families.
The International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners® and International Lactation Consultant Association® have recognized Seminole County Health Department for excellence in lactation care.