Medical Coverage Assistance Program for Working Individuals with Disabilities; Requires AHCA to implement & administer Medicaid buy-in program for specified working individuals with disabilities; provides requirements for program; requires agency to seek by specified date federal approval through Medicaid waiver or state plan amendment to implement program; requires agency to implement & administer program upon receiving federal approval.
Benefits for Obesity under the State Group Health Insurance Plan; Requires DMS to provide coverage for treatment & management of obesity for state group health insurance policies issued after specified date; provides coverage criteria; requires department to adopt eligibility criteria by specified date; provides reporting requirements.
Coverage for Orthotics and Prosthetics Services; Authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to authorize and pay for specified orthotics and prosthetics services for Medicaid recipients who are eligible individuals; requiring the agency to seek federal approval and amend contracts as necessary to implement the act; requiring individual health insurance policies; group, blanket, and franchise health insurance policies; and health maintenance contracts, respectively, to provide coverage for specified orthotics and prosthetics services for eligible individuals, etc.
Medical Malpractice Liability Coverage; Increasing the minimum amount of professional liability coverage certain physicians and osteopathic physicians, respectively, are required to maintain as a condition of licensure, etc.
Consultant Pharmacists ; Revises definition of "health care facility"; authorizes consultant pharmacists to provide medication management services in clinics owned by hospital or by one or more physicians who are employed by or contracted with hospital.
Experimental Treatments for Terminal Conditions and Life-threatening Rare Diseases; Citing this act as the “Promising Pathways Act"; authorizing licensed physicians to prescribe and eligible facilities to administer experimental treatments, if certain requirements are met; requiring the Department of Health to establish and maintain a patient registry for specified purposes; encouraging health insurers and health maintenance organizations to provide specified insurance coverage for experimental treatments; authorizing licensed physicians and eligible facilities to receive reimbursement for the prescription or administration of experimental treatments if certain requirements are met; requiring manufacturers of experimental treatments to provide for a specified temporary price concession set by the department, etc.
Coverage for Cancer Imaging and Genetic Testing; Requiring health insurers and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage; prohibiting such coverage from being subject to cost-sharing requirements, etc.
Fees/Government-Facilitated Purchases and Sales of Individual and Small Employer Health and Dental Plans; Authorizes Florida Health Insurance Exchange to charge assessments & user fees to health carriers & generate funding for specified purpose; requires exchange to publish certain financial information on Internet website.
Comprehensive Health Care for Residents; Creating the “Florida Health Plan”; authorizing the Florida Health Board to establish certain financial arrangements with other states and foreign countries under certain circumstances; prohibiting cost-sharing requirements from being imposed on enrollees; providing that defaults, underpayments, and late payments of certain obligations result in certain remedies and penalties; providing for eligible health care providers to participate in the plan; creating the Office of Health Quality and Planning, etc.
Continuity of Care in Health Insurance Contracts; Requires that contracts between individual health insurer, group, blanket, or franchise health insurer & HMO & contracted health care practitioner require specified notice to affected policyholders & subscribers before cancellation or termination of contracts; provides administrative penalties; requires health insurer, HMO & health care practitioner to allow certain policyholders & subscribers to continue coverage & care for specified timeframe; requires insurer & health care practitioner to be bound by terminated contract.
