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Florida launches vaccine pre-registration website
Read full article: Florida launches vaccine pre-registration websiteAlachua County is not opting into the state vaccine preregistration system and urges its residents to call their scheduling number until the county health department’s new website is launched soon. “There are multiple processes in place for vaccine appointments and delivery. You should return 28 days later on the same day and time of your first dose appointment. For example, if your appointment for your first dose was at 9 a.m. Jan. 4, you would return at 9 a.m. Feb. 1 for your second dose. As of Friday morning, the state has given 1,332,746 first doses and 273,249 second doses since the first vaccine made it to the state in mid-December.
Florida health price website gets little public attention
Read full article: Florida health price website gets little public attentionHelvey said the FloridaHealthPriceFinder website will be updated to include the 2019 claims data by spring 2021. But the website was slow to get off the ground, in part due to a delay in moving forward with needed rules to get companies such as Florida Blue, AvMed, Health Options, Capital Health Plan and Florida Health Care Plan to submit the data. The association argued at the time that without claims information from all carriers the FloridaHealthPriceFinder website would be confusing. “The FloridaHealthPriceFinder website certainly empowers Floridians to better shop for health care and understand the associated costs,” she said in a statement. “Florida’s health plans also understand that health care pricing is complex and we are always looking at additional ways in which we can allow our members to easily access and review data on both price and quality of health care services.”