A Florida Medicaid funding shift is raising alarms among pediatric providers

A Florida Medicaid funding shift is raising alarms among pediatric providers

A group of Florida pediatric providers is warning they have only weeks of operating runway left, saying a Medicaid funding shift has diverted dollars from routine pediatric care to cover Applied Behavior Analysis, or ABA. The shift dates to February 2025, when Florida moved its ABA benefit into Medicaid managed care. Since then, providers say, funding for routine pediatric care has been redirected to cover ABA services even though ABA is provide…