Home FloridaBulldog.org A Rick Scott Story Part II – How Political Giving and Getting...

A Rick Scott Story Part II – How Political Giving and Getting is Done

scott
Ahca Secretary Elizabeth Dudek At Feb. 6, 2014 “Signing Day Celebration” For Winners Of Medicaid Managed Medical Assistance Contracts. Prestige Health Choice, A Company In Which Rick Scott Donor Dr. Daniel Dosoretz Had A Substantial Investment, Was A Winner. (FloridaBuldog.org)

Since shortly after Rick Scott was sworn in as governor in 2011, he and the Republican Party of Florida have raked in nearly $1.2 million in contributions from companies owned or controlled by Dr. Daniel Dosoretz, the ambitious founder and former chief executive of giant 21st Century Oncology.

State election records show that many of those contributions appear to have been timed to influence the award of a billion dollar state Medicaid contract by the Scott administration’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) in 2014.  If so, they worked.

Prestige Health Choice LLC, another company in which Dosoretz had a substantial financial stake, was one of more than a dozen bidders when AHCA solicited proposals in late December 2012 from health plans seeking to provide managed medical assistance (MMA) services for Medicaid enrollees in Region 11 – Miami-Dade and Monroe counties. AHCA said the MMA procurement “may be the largest procurement in Florida government.”

While AHCA’s award was pending in 2013, more than a dozen Dosoretz companies, including Fort Myers-based 21st Century Oncology, its lobbyists and Dosoretz business partner Dr. Howard Sheridan, contributed $191,500 to Let’s Get to Work, the “independent” political action committee funding Gov. Scott’s 2014 re-election effort. That was atop $141,000 that Dosoretz’s companies gave to Let’s Get to Work and the Republican Party of Florida in 2011-2012 before AHCA’s Invitation to Negotiate.

Faith Based Events
[vc_btn title=”Continue reading” color=”primary” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.floridabulldog.org%2F2018%2F10%2Frick-scott-story-part-ii-political-giving-getting%2F%3Fmc_cid%3De8cb2672c4%26mc_eid%3D7e0ff672f5||target:%20_blank|”][vc_message message_box_style=”outline” message_box_color=”blue”]By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org, Special to SouthFloridaReporter.com, Nov. 2, 2018[/vc_message]

Disclaimer

The information contained in South Florida Reporter is for general information purposes only.
The South Florida Reporter assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in the contents of the Service.
In no event shall the South Florida Reporter be liable for any special, direct, indirect, consequential, or incidental damages or any damages whatsoever, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tort, arising out of or in connection with the use of the Service or the contents of the Service. The Company reserves the right to make additions, deletions, or modifications to the contents of the Service at any time without prior notice.
The Company does not warrant that the Service is free of viruses or other harmful components