Florida's "Live Healthy" Legislation: Implications for Financing "Nonemergent" Emergency Care

Theodore A Lee¹, Martin Wegman^{2

3}, Arjun K Venkatesh^{4

5}, Ryan Koski-Vacirca⁴, Kristen Panthagani⁴, Craig Rothenberg⁴, Alexander Janke⁶, Ula Hwang^{4

7}, Cameron J Gettel^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
² HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital, Orange Park, FL.
³ American College of Emergency Physicians, Irving, TX.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
⁵ Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
⁶ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI.
⁷ Department of Emergency Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY.

Theodore A Lee et al. Med Care. 2025.

. 2025 Sep 30.

doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000002225. Online ahead of print.

Theodore A Lee¹, Martin Wegman^{2

3}, Arjun K Venkatesh^{4

5}, Ryan Koski-Vacirca⁴, Kristen Panthagani⁴, Craig Rothenberg⁴, Alexander Janke⁶, Ula Hwang^{4

7}, Cameron J Gettel^{4

5}

¹ Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
² HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital, Orange Park, FL.
³ American College of Emergency Physicians, Irving, TX.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
⁵ Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
⁶ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI.
⁷ Department of Emergency Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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