About the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA)
Our Agency was statutorily created by Chapter 20, Florida Statutes as the chief health policy and planning entity for the state. We are primarily responsible for the state's $18 billion Medicaid program that serves over 2.7 million Floridians, the licensure of the state's 41,000 health care facilities and the sharing of health care data through the Florida Center for Health Information and Policy Analysis.
Last year we worked with legislators to tackle the problem of Florida's uninsured and began offering Cover Florida plans on January 1, 2009, and we hope they will make a difference for the state's 3.6 million uninsured. We also worked to target fraud in home health agencies, to make available price and outcome information on 150 different procedures, and to stretch our budget resources to serve as many people as possible.
This year we are working to continue to reduce the number of uninsured across the state, to enhance our ability to target fraudulent providers, to reduce unnecessary regulation, and to reduce administrative costs in order to ensure that dollars go to serve patients and more.
