TALLAHASSEE - face lifting Medicaid and the most State funding eliminates mental health and substance abuse adult programs would most of the savings in the Senator Joe Negron 28 billion dollar health and human services budget proposal.
Stuart Republican published its slimmed-down budget proposal with more than $1 billion in the General cuts Monday, and the biggest savings of turn around parts of Medicaid, managed care would come. Hospital reimbursement rates, for example would be chopped 10 percent and prices would be nursing homes 5 percent of less, amounting to about 580 million $ savings.
A 204 million US-dollar cut to adult community mental health services delete all State funding for the programme, apart from additional dollars for Medicaid, receive these services, said patients would Negrón.
John Romano, President/CEO of the new horizons of the Treasure Coast, said he hoped that those cuts mental health problems in centres such as his influence treatment by doctors for that would not.
"What I think, he speaks is hopefully money for case management services and consulting services, not doctors," Romano said. "This would be a major problem, and people would be in crisis centres, emergency rooms and prisons at the end." "It will be not a pretty picture."
Last year, new horizons of more than $11.5 million received from the Department for children and families for mental health and substance abuse programs, from which 55 percent of its budget. With 10,000 clients per year over the Treasure Coast and Okeechobee counties new horizons is one of the 22 local organizations DCF mental health and substance abuse received money.
Also programme funding would be gone about $27 million in adult drug abuse by the State, that represents total allocation of the previous year. About $7.5 million in additional drug abuse would be saved by cutting administrative positions dollars.
Some money would be beneficiaries on Medicaid for drug abuse program, Negron said, and federal dollars for mental health and substance abuse services are still available.
"I felt like these programs of less priority than a 95-year-old woman at a nursing home care, or care themselves were a 2-pound baby at children's Hospital," Negron said. "This is more important than substance abuse treatment for a 40-year old man."
The budget intact, but leaving financing children's substance abuse and mental health programs. Also would you keep dollars in place for children's Hospice care, adults and children stabilization crisis centres, and money for the beginning of Alzheimer's projects and memory disorder clinics, provide.
Healthy families Florida, a visitation program that helps vulnerable adults develop would be financed parenting skills, also at the same level as last year, Negron said. The Senator, among other things mentioned cut the opportunity, the program for savings.
Cuts the medically needy program, the patients who did not qualify for Medicaid, but have outstanding medical bills will help, would save$ 230 million. With proposed changes to the programme would be covered adult men and women who are pregnant not only for regular doctor visits.
Statewide, about crossing people participate in the medically needy program. St. Lucie County has 464 programme beneficiaries, Indian River has 179 and Martin has 112.
With regard to the mental health cuts Romano, pointed out that gov Rick Scott's budget largely mental health money kept intact and the House of representatives has not yet its health budget proposals published. There is enough time for the numbers vary, Romano said.
"I am optimistic that the cuts will be less," said Romano. "We will continue to have dialogue with Senator Negron and other legislators, and I hope that this number will go down." "Politics is only smart investments in these services (mental health)."
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