Welcome to the website for the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration. Our mission is "Better Health Care for All Floridians." As champions of that mission, we are responsible for the administration of the Florida Medicaid program, licensure and regulation of Florida’s health facilities and for providing information to Floridians about the quality of care they receive.
Every day, we look for ways to improve health care in Florida. We’ve built strong partnerships with other agencies and continue to develop relationships with stakeholders at all levels in communities around the state. The Agency for Health Care Administration would not be able to effectively carry out its mission without your help. Thank you for your partnership and for the opportunity to serve you.
The Agency places the utmost importance on the safe and secure handling of all protected health information. For more information, please review our Notice of Privacy Practices.
Agency News
CMS Grants Expanded Ability for Hospitals to Offer Long-term Care Services for COVID-19 Patients [211KB PDF]
AHCA Issues Emergency Rules Requiring Mandatory Facility Access for Infection Prevention and Control [180KB PDF]
Agency for Health Care Administration Launches Statewide Hospital Bed Capacity Dashboard [184KB PDF]
AHCA Commends DeSantis’ Administration for Commitment to Patient-Centered Health Care in Florida [192KB PDF]
Agency Alerts
- Be Aware of Current Hospital and Physician COVID-19 Testing Criteria for Elderly and Medically Vulnerable Individuals [196KB PDF]
- Guidance for Senior Living Communities (Independent Living) [171KB PDF]
- Hospital and Physician COVID-19 Testing Criteria for Elderly and Medically Frail [159KB PDF]
- Medicaid Coverage of Services During the State of Emergency Related to COVID-19 [580KB PDF]
- Emergency Order Visitation Limits at Residential, Skilled Nursing and Long-term Care Facilities [108KB PDF]
- COVID-19 Transfer Communication Tool [225KB PDF]
- COVID-19 Facility Visitor Screening Toolkit [239KB PDF]
- CDC Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines [169KB PDF]
- Novel Coronavirus Update for Health Care Facilities and Providers [160KB PDF]
- New ICD-10-CM code for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) [89KB PDF]
- ICD-10-CM Official Coding Guidelines – Supplement Coding encounters related to COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak [76KB PDF]
- Information for Healthcare Facilities Concerning 2019 Novel Coronavirus Illness [111KB PDF]
- UPDATED: Detection and Reporting of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) [196KB PDF]
- Important Message from Secretary Mayhew on the Importance of Reporting to the Emergency Status System [245KB PDF]
- Guidelines for the Surveillance, Investigation, and Control of Legionnaires’ Disease in Florida [365KB PDF]
- Reportable Diseases/Conditions in Florida [344KB PDF]
- The Agency’s Long Range Program Plan and Legislative Budget Requests can be viewed via the Florida Fiscal Portal.
- Sign Up for Medicaid Health Care Alerts ∼ The Florida Medicaid program has an e-mail alert system to supplement the present method of receiving Provider Alerts information and to notify registered providers or interested parties of "late-breaking" health care information.
- Division of Emergency Management Florida Natural Hazards Annual Report [999KB PDF]
- Health Care Alerts - Register to receive information pertaining to licensure, managed care, and other health topics by email