State moves quickly to settle Medicaid managed care legal challenges
Florida Medicaid officials are moving quickly to try to resolve legal challenges to the state’s round of Medicaid managed care contracts that are worth billions.
The Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) referred legal complaints filed by ImagineCare, AmeriHealth Caritas and Sentara to the state Division of Administrative Hearings (DOAH) on July 26, days before a statutory deadline to do so.
A state administrative Judge has not been assigned to any of the cases.
Florida administrative law requires that a hearing be held within 30 days, meaning that a trial must start by Aug. 26.
AHCA referred the cases to DOAH after Florida’s top economists questioned the startup date for the newly an...
