Florida
Jason Weida
Chief of staff to Gov. Ron DeSantis since February 2025. As secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration he signed the 2024 Centene Medicaid settlement that sent $10 million to the Hope Florida Foundation.
Offices and candidacies
- Before 2023 Chief of staff of the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA). (Health News Florida via WLRN, “Jason Weida is leaving post atop Florida's Medicaid agency to be DeSantis' chief of staff”, Feb. 6, 2025)
- 2023 Became AHCA secretary, appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. (Health News Florida via WLRN, “Jason Weida is leaving post atop Florida's Medicaid agency to be DeSantis' chief of staff”, Feb. 6, 2025)
- Sept. 27, 2024 Signed Florida's Medicaid settlement with Centene for AHCA. His general counsel testified that he directed the $10 million to the Hope Florida Foundation; the grand jury report did not accept his description of the money as a "bonus." (Florida Trident via WGCU, “Exclusive: Taxpayers paid nearly $200,000 in legal fees for a witness the Hope Florida grand jury found 'not credible'”, Sept. 19, 2026)
- Feb. 2025 Named the governor's chief of staff, succeeding James Uthmeier. (Health News Florida via WLRN, “Jason Weida is leaving post atop Florida's Medicaid agency to be DeSantis' chief of staff”, Feb. 6, 2025)
- 2026 Represented by Thomas E. Bishop in the appeal that ended in the Oct. 7, 2026, order expunging the grand jury report. (Florida First District Court of Appeal, “In re: Leon County Grand Jury Presentment, Fall of 2025, No. 1D2026-2435 (copy via WFLA)”, Oct. 7, 2026)