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Guide to Florida’s Medicaid program now available

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Guide to Florida’s Medicaid program now available

The four million Floridians who depend on Medicaid for their health care face a labyrinth of state and federal laws, policies, procedures, and regulations that can be daunting even for their lawyers, which is why a South Florida-based team of legal advocates has just published The Advocate’s Guide to the Florida Medicaid Program.

The 24-page guide summarizes the legal governance of a complex and frequently changing federal-state insurance program that covers medical expenses for eligible families, pregnant women, elderly, and disabled individuals and others. An additional 10 pages contain 128 specific legal citations.

“The guide addresses basic questions asked by advocates, applicants, and beneficiaries,” said Miriam Harmatz, co-director of the new Florida Health Justice Project, who co-wrote the guide with Margaret Kosyk of Coast to Coast Legal Aid of South Florida, Inc., and Jazmine-Janine Dykes, a third-year law student at the University of Miami School of Law.

The new Florida guide is one of the first of its kind in the nation and is based on a template created by the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) for use in creating state-specific guides. It was produced with financial support from the Florida Justice Technology Center and can be found at www.floridahealthjustice.org/medicaid-guide.

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