Agency for Health Care Administration

The new Amendment 3, I think, is, that's the one with the property taxes, of course, and that's the one that, uh, I think we're all hoping gets passed and gets passed overwhelmingly so there, there can be no mistake The DeSan- the DeSantis administration has strongly opposed any wrongdoing.

The first DCA, District Courts of Approval, of Appeal rather, eviscerated the phony narratives regarding AHCA's, or the Agency for Healthcare Administration, pre-suit settlement and the private donation to DCF, or Department of Children and Families, direct support organization, The Hope Foundation, DeSantis wrote.

No misappropriation, no tax dollars were used at all, no Medicaid money was involved with the donation.

Moody, who served as Florida's attorney general, has continued to deny any wrongdoing and claims she did not know where the funds would end up.

You can apply for a waiver of that to pay a contractor to make what they call an advance payment, but you can only do so under law when doing so is, quote, in the best interest of the state.

During this bananas campaign in which five different state agencies were running public service announcements that were essentially... thinly disguised campaign ads to attack Amendments 3 and 4, the Agency for Healthcare Administration, the state Medicaid agency, the same agency, by the way, neck deep in the whole Florida scandal, used that law to rush $270,000 in television ads out the door attacking Amendment 4, the abortion rights ballot measure.

And they made this $270,000 advance payment because they claimed it was, quote, essential to the agency's operations.

And that's how they were able to use this law to rush these payments out the door.

Uh, we recently took down a, a nursing home that didn't have all of its licenses and, uh, was literally receiving people, uh, from medical institutions and, and subjecting them to pretty horrible care.

DeSantis says the Agency for Healthcare Administration has visited more than 400 providers since January.

Wow.

Does he have a list of those anywhere?

That's according to Governor Ron DeSantis.

Center Square contributor Marilee Gasser reports earlier this year, the Agency for Healthcare Administration launched a statewide revalidation effort for Medicaid providers and increased its provider screening and claims monitoring.

Tuesday, the governor announced that since June, the agency has made over 150 referrals to the Attorney General's office for alleged fraud.

Over 260 providers have been placed on payment restrictions or suspended for receiving payments.