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• Florida is now one of 16 states where federal and state officials are investigating lung-related illnesses that have suspected ties to e-cigarette use, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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• Florida is dealing with the state’s worst hepatitis A outbreak in years and the Tampa Bay area has been hit the hardest. Health officials in Pinellas County are using a new method to combat the virus, which attacks the liver.
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• Behavioral therapists who work mostly with children on the autism spectrum say the state agency that oversees the Medicaid program is finally starting to listen to their concerns. The State Agency for Health Care Administration is now running meetings on behavior analysis therapy changes — that had been scheduled in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Pensacola over the coming weeks — in webinar form.
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• In the last couple years, the state Agency for Health Care Administration has been cracking down on fraudulent billing practices by clinics that provide behavior analysis therapy to children on the autism spectrum.
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• The state starts rolling out new Medicaid managed care plans on Saturday and some are worried about the impacts to Florida’s most vulnerable patients.
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• State health officials say cases of the mosquito-borne Zika virus are still being recorded in Florida. But there are fewer cases than the past couple years.
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• Some cities, counties and school districts in Florida and around the country are helping their employees buy cheap prescription drugs from Canada and overseas. Health News Florida’s Julio Ochoa sat down with Phil Galewitz from Kaiser Health News to talk about his reporting on the issue.
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• The latest census numbers show 12.5 percent of Floridians lack health insurance. So where are they going for care? Many of them rely on the patchwork of free and charitable clinics throughout the state.
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• The rising costs of prescription drugs are especially hard on people who already struggle to pay rent or put food on the table. In this installment of our series on free clinics, a facility in Bradenton is providing a $90,000 Hepatitis C treatment to patients at no cost.
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• When patients come to The Outreach Clinic in Brandon, one of the first people they encounter is Jackie Perez.
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