FIC: FLAHIGA Bill Going to Senate Floor

By:   Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel A bill related to the Florida Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association (FLAHIGA or Association) passed its last Senate committee on April 25, 2017.  The bill will be heard on the Senate floor when set by the Rules Committee.   As originally filed, the bill: Starting July 1, 2017,…

FIC: 2017 Insurance Fraud Package Moving to House, Senate Floors

By:  Sam Miller, FIC ConsultantHB 1007 Insurer Anti-Fraud Efforts — by RascheinAmendment 565543 [PDF] Beshears                           HB 1009 Pub. Rec./DFS/Insurance Fraud Information — by Raschein With only two weeks remaining in the 2017 regular session, the insurance fraud package (CS/CS/CS/HB 1007) from the Department of Financial Services’ Division of Investigative and Forensic Services is moving right…

FIC: Telemedicine Package, Including Insurer Tax Credit Barely Survives

By:  Sam Miller, FIC ConsultantHB 7011 Health Care Access — by Health Quality Subcommittee031867 — Pigman490511 —  Pigman142269 – Pigman440713 — Brodeur A House Health Quality Subcommittee package (CS/HB 7001) implementing telehealth before the  recommendations coming this fall from a special task force was approved by the important House Health & Human Services Committee April,…