{"id":240384,"date":"2026-04-21T14:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240384\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:27:10","slug":"the-scoop-tues-apr-21-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240384\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Tues. Apr. 21, 2026 Tampa Bay and Florida headlines by WMNF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-Scoop-color-2048x2048-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-257493 size-257493 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>More than 147,000 Floridians could lose access to their doctors<\/p>\n<p> UnitedHealthcare is negotiating reimbursement rates with BayCare, and a new contract must be agreed upon by May 31st; if not, patients may be forced to find new doctors.<\/p>\n<p>Crisis Center Tampa Bay received a $35,000 grant to support<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/crisis-center-of-tampa-bay-receives-35k-towards-cost-of-teen-sexual-assault-exams\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/crisis-center-of-tampa-bay-receives-35k-towards-cost-of-teen-sexual-assault-exams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">grant<\/a> will go towards supporting the cost of youth sexual assault exams.<\/p>\n<p>Curriculum Associates has received a lawsuit over the i-Ready learning app<\/p>\n<p>Students and parents across the country filed the lawsuit, alleging that the program is collecting sensitive student data without parental consent.<\/p>\n<p>Medicaid funding for abortion providers is set to expire this summer<\/p>\n<p>The rule, which was signed into law last summer and has forced over 20 health care centers to close, is now expiring and may not be renewed.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Forest Service wants to cut nearly 60 research stations<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/wildfires-erupt-around-florida-drought-intensifies\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/wildfires-erupt-around-florida-drought-intensifies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Forest Service<\/a> says that the move is about saving money.<\/p>\n<p>The Scoop: Tampa Bay &amp; Florida headlines by WMNF<\/p>\n<p>The Scoop, produced by Sofia Caballero.<\/p>\n<p>WMNF anchors Chris Young, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Lisa Marzilli, Josh Holton.\u00a0<br \/>WMNF News Director Se\u00e1n Kinane<br \/>WMNF reporters Chris Young, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Lisa Marzilli, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Leah Burdick, Sofia Caballero, Josh Holton<br \/>Special thanks to Taylor Lovejoy and Corey Beltran.<\/p>\n<p>Theme music, Fresh06, by Stian via archive.org \u2013 CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/jamendo-001084\/02.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/jamendo-001084\/02.mp3<\/a><br \/>The Scoop logo by Robin Milcowitz \/ Greener Pixels \/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/greenerpixels.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">greenerpixels.com<\/a>\u00a0\/ WMNF<\/p>\n<p>information from News Service of Florida, the Associated Press and Florida Public Media was used in this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 147,000 Floridians could lose access to their doctors UnitedHealthcare is negotiating reimbursement rates with BayCare, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[36009,7931,833,16665,13120,30415,135,137,136,416,19123],"class_list":["post-240384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-crisis-center-of-tampa-bay","tag-healthcare","tag-lawsuit","tag-local-government","tag-medicaid","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-scoop","tag-wmnf-88-5-fm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}