State workers’ drug-testing bill gets 2nd wind
A bill that would let state agencies conduct random drug screens of staff passed the House Appropriations Committee 15 to 8 only a few days after most people thought the issue was dead.
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- Bill allowing random drug-testing for all state workers is revived
- To get out of Medicare HMO, act by Tuesday. But it’s tricky
- Business, doctor groups compromise on work-comp drug bill
- Consumer seat at risk on state medical boards
- Breaking up is hard to do—especially for practice partners
- Dept. of Health prosecution charges called ‘outrageous’
- Hospitals escape Senate cuts; mental health hit
- FL Surgeon General’s drug bill dies
- Will FMA defeat its former president in Legislature?
- Nursing homes to ask for salary-cap exemption
- House justice panel passes PIP reform, despite bill’s flaws
- Major workers’ comp bill passes first committee
- Waiting list presents dilemma for Medicaid Reform
- Doctors do surgery on DOH’s drug-dealing bill
- Drug-dealing doctors focus of bill
Original Stories From Health News Florida
Consumers may not lose medical-board seats
The state’s association for physician assistants has agreed to drop its request for one of the consumer slots on each medical board, the group’s chief lobbyist said today.
read moreDOH won’t lose programs to counties
Protests by public-health experts, county commissions and consumers have defanged some of the legislative attack on the Department of Health.
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