CopyCited 3 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2002 WL 730728
...The Act established, among other things, the PMATF, which was financed by a 1.5% assessment on the net operating revenues of Florida hospitals, as well as appropriations from state general revenue and federal Medicaid matching funds. The PMATF is currently codified as section 409.918, Florida Statutes, and provides the following statement of legislative intent: It is declared that access to adequate health care is a right which should be available to all Floridians....
...to indigent persons, the cost of which shall be borne by the state and by hospitals that are granted the privilege of operating in this state. Pursuant to the statute, payments from the PMATF are dispersed "solely for the purposes specified by law." § 409.918(2), Fla....
...See, e.g., Beach Communications,
508 U.S. at 318-320,
113 S.Ct. 2096; Eastern Air Lines,
455 So.2d at 314; People Against Section 561.501, Inc. v. Department of Business Regulation,
587 So.2d 644 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991). This comports with the legislature's finding in section
409.918, Florida Statutes, that unreimbursed health care services cause the cost of services to paying patients to increase in a manner unrelated to the actual cost of services delivered and hamper the ability of hospitals providing these unreimbursed services to compete....
CopyCited 1 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 2009 Fla. App. LEXIS 344, 2009 WL 128272
...We first recognize that the repayment of $85,408.05 would cause hardship to Espinal’s solo medical practice, and to, ultimately, the community which he services. However, the law is clear that when the agency overpays a provider for Medicaid services, the agency is entitled to recover the overpayment. See § 409.918(2), (7), (20), (21), Fla....
