The Florida Current: How can Florida doctors survive in an HMO world? Doctors who want to know how to survive in the new statewide Medicaid managed care marketplace in the coming years can listen to Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Liz Dudek at a meeting in Orlando next week

Reprinted from The Florida Current
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By Christine Jordan Sexton, 8/18/2011

Doctors who want to know how to survive in the new statewide Medicaid managed care marketplace in the coming years can listen to Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Liz Dudek at a meeting in Orlando next week.

State Rep. Darren Soto is hosting a meeting at the Florida Hospital in Orlando on Aug. 25 to answer questions from doctors and hospitals about how to play in the new mandatory managed care environment, said Soto, a Democrat from Orlando. This isn’t the first meeting on the statewide Medicaid managed care project, but it may be the first one where the agenda is aimed at answering health care providers’ questions. Soto said providers need to understand how the changes impact their businesses if they want to stay in business.

"This won't be political," said Soto, who actually voted against the sweeping reforms along with the other Democrats in the House of Representatives. "It's an effort for me to help educate the doctors and administrators and others folks who are potentially dealing with Medicaid reform. …. This is geared toward providing information on what would be a huge reform affecting loss of doctors offices."

Agency for Health Care Administration spokesperson Michelle Dahnke confirmed that Dudek -- and not a proxy -- will be at the meeting.

This is not the first time that Soto has hosted meetings in Orlando with agency secretaries. He previously met with former Department of Health Secretary Ana Vimonte Ros and former Department of Community Affairs Secretary Tom Pelham, who addressed autism in the Hispanic community and the foreclosure crisis, respectively.

"If you ask the right way you can get a lot of secretaries to come down," said Soto.
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Tags: Medicaid Reform

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