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HIV/AIDS
Key AHCA Finance Official Doubts New HIV/AIDS Disease Management Vendor's Financial Ability
July 15th, 2007
During the process of appealing the recent award of a state program to provide HIV/AIDS disease management (DM) services to Florida's Medicaid population, testimony from a key Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) official revealed a legal and bureaucratic bombshell: The only AHCA evaluator who has reviewed the financial status of the proposed new vendor, determined that the vendor lacks the financial capacity to actually run the program, which provides crucial services to 8,000 Floridians with HIV/AIDS The AHCA official, a certified public accountant, also admitted that these concerns have not been shared with higher ups at AHCA. "Early last month, AHCA...
Source: Aging & Elder Health Week (2007-07-15)
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