Florida Moves To Manage Health Care For Foster Kids
Plan seeks to close gaps for more than 30,000 kids in the state's child welfare system.
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Plan seeks to close gaps for more than 30,000 kids in the state's child welfare system.
The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration's Statewide Medicaid Managed Care Map shows there are 31,600 children eligible for the new specialty plan designed for those in the child welfare system across 11 regions.
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