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By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On March 11, 2020, the Florida Legislature passed a bill which, in part, allows advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) to practice autonomously for family and internal medicine and pediatrics and sets the parameters of that practice. The bill has one health insurance implication related to the APRN autonomous…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House and Senate passed a compromise expanded scope of practice bill for pharmacists on March 11, 2020. Procedurally, the House sent the Senate a broad bill that expanded the scope of practice to: allow pharmacists to test and treat flu, strep, and other minor, nonchronic health conditions; allow…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 599 expands the scope of practice for consultant pharmacists. A similar bill passed the House last year, but died in the Senate when it was never heard in committee. The full House approved this year’s consultant pharmacist bill on February 20, 2020 with a vote of 115-2 and…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On March 9, 2020, the House passed their PBM regulation bill (HB 7045) with a vote of 118-0. The bill now goes to the Senate for approval. The Senate PBM bill, SB 1338 did not clear all its assigned committees, so to pass, it will have to be…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House organ transplant bill, HB 1187, passed the full House on March 9, 2020 by a vote of 117-0. The House bill will now be sent to the Senate for approval. The Senate bill is on Special Order, so the bill is in position for passage. However,…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The Agency for Healthcare Administration (AHCA) agency bill contains two insurance related provisions – one revising medical clinic licensing law and one revising the shared savings law. The full House approved their bill, HB 731 on March 9, 2020 and sent the bill to the Senate for approval. The…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On March 6, 2020, with a vote of 88-18, the House passed HB 389 which greatly expands the scope of practice for pharmacists. The bill now goes to the Senate for approval. SB 714, the Senate companion bill, has cleared all its committees, but is very different from…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On March 3, 2020, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved SB 1676, an amended bill related to a direct care workers that includes language prohibiting health plans and HMOs from requiring insureds to receive medical care from a APRN – Independent Practitioner (IP), from using an insured’s cost sharing responsibility…