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FACHC requests Medicaid reimbursement rate increase for Florida community health centers

VillageMD exits Florida market, shutters all remaining clinics

UT heart survivor shares story to spread awareness for American Heart Month

One Utah woman is sharing her story during American Heart Month to spread awareness about how important preventive heart health care is. Claire Larson, a cardiac arrest survivor, was a 28-year-old aerobics teacher in April 2000, who said she felt healthy and "on top of the world," until she experienced cardiac arrest and was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. Larson explained her heart condition eventually led her to needing a transplant in 2016. .

CT group fights deadly disparity in healthcare

A Connecticut group wants to work with the General Assembly on improving health equity. A 2023 Health Equity report from the nonprofit group DataHaven found disparities in care led to 14,000 deaths among Black residents between 2017 and 2022. While the pandemic worsened the fatalities, it highlighted people falling through the cracks of Connecticut s healthcare system. .

FL health centers face financial strain without Medicaid reimbursement increase

Florida s Community Health Centers are raising concerns about their own financial health due to what they ve said are inadequate Medicaid reimbursement rates. The centers are urging lawmakers to adjust the rates to cover what they ve found to be a gap of $106, or just over 42%, for every Medicaid patient visit. Bradley Herremans, CEO of Suncoast Community Health Centers in Hillsborough County, said filling the funding gap could enable them to expand services and even open new clinics, while failure to do so would force them to curtail or close some services, disproportionately affecting low-income populations. .