OPEN MINDS, The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Industry News A Medicaid reform pilot program, scheduled to begin July 1, 2006, in Florida's Duvall and Broward Counties, will affect 200,000 Medicaid recipients, a test group larger than the whole Medicaid population of many states. The Medicaid Reform Bill, signed into law in Florida in December 2005, is a consumer-directed program intended to improve the quality of health care and provide more choices for the more than 2.2 million Floridians who participate in Medicaid. The waiver authority is contingent upon federal approval to preserve the . . .