Five news items every Florida physician should know this week — CMS prior authorization, payer contracts, Medicaid pediatric rates, Live Healthy implementation, and IMLC status.

Florida commercial payers are consolidating, and the contracts physicians sign in the next 18 months will set the financial floor for years. A playbook for negotiating from data, not deference.

A Florida-specific retirement planning playbook for physicians 5 to 10 years from the exit. Tax strategies, timelines, and the structural decisions that move the math.

Florida's veteran doctors are quietly drifting. The 2025 Mayo Clinic Proceedings career-lifecycle research names the pattern — and what works against it.

CMS-0062-P is the most consequential prior authorization reform under active rulemaking. The comment window closes June 15. Here is what every Florida physician should be saying.

Social media engagement around UnitedHealth Group ($UNH) surged 950% in a single week this April. The conversation isn't about earnings. It's about nursing home deaths, DOJ fraud investigations, and a public that has finally caught up to what Florida physicians have been saying for years.

The MGMA 2026 Regulatory Burden Report shows 95% of practices say burden has increased, with Medicare Advantage driving the worst pain points. Florida, with its 60%+ MA penetration, is hit hardest. Here's what physicians should do.