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David Ottati Returns: Ex-Florida Hospital Flagler CEO Takes Over 3-County Region

May 8, 2017 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

David Ottati, a regional Adventist Health CEO, headed Florida Hospital Flagler for several years. (© FlaglerLive)

David Ottati’s rise in the Adventist organization is again bringing him to Flagler County as he takes over leadership of a seven hospital-region including Florida Hospital Flagler.

Health Insurers Moving to Undermine Obamacare By Limiting Enrollment

February 8, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

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major insurers are seeking to sharply limit how policies are sold to individuals in ways that consumer advocates say seem to discriminate against the sickest and could hold down future enrollment.

Florida Inverse: 2nd Highest Level of Uninsured, Dead Last in Affordable Care Grants

July 16, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Judging by the grant totals of other states, Florida appears to have forfeited at least $100 million and possibly $300 million or more, not even including $51 billion the state is forfeiting by saying no to Medicaid expansion.

Why Obtaining Your Own Medical Records May Now Cost You a Small Fortune

July 14, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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For-profit companies in the new “release of information” or “disclosure-management” industry now charge $1 a page, in paper or digital format, for what used to be free, while the Florida Board of Medicine is looking to make the $1-a-page standard for all.

Obamacare Tally: Florida Subsidies Average $3,000, But Some Families Complain of Costly Exclusion

April 1, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

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And yet only one in four Floridians who qualifies for a subsidy had enrolled in a plan by March 1, leaving 1 million eligible residents uninsured. A mother describes how the law’s employee-insurance provision barred her family from subsidies.

How Rick Scott Bought the Election

December 4, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Rick Scott spent more than $60 million of his own money, and drew on a slew of health care industries through a front called the “Let’s Get to Work” committee.

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