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By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel SB 744 expands the current law on direct primary care agreements by allowing podiatrists to enter into these agreements with individuals. Current law only allows allopathic physicians, osteopathic physicians, chiropractic physicians, nurses, or dentists to use direct primary care agreements. The bill also changes other regulations for podiatrists,…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House moved their PBM regulation bill (HB 7045) to the floor on February 18, 2020 when it passed its last committee, House Health and Human Services. A strike all amendment and two amendments to the strike all were adopted to the bill. The strike all amendment:…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On February 18, 2020, the Senate Health Policy Committee adopted an amendment to their pharmacist test and treat bill (SB 714) to limit it to flu only. The House bill (HB 389) is different and allows pharmacists to test and treat for flu and strep. The House bill was…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House organ transplant bill, HB 1187, no longer contains a prohibition on health insurance excluding coverage for organ donors as the provision was removed in its first committee. However, the Senate organ donor bill (SB 1516) still contains the prohibition. The bill differences will have to be worked…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 1279 tweaks the health insurance shared savings program. It passed its last committee on February 18, 2020 without amendment. It will now be heard on the House floor when scheduled by the Rules Committee. The shared savings program was created in 2019 as a voluntary program for…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 351 expands the current law on direct primary care agreements by allowing podiatrists to enter into these agreements with individuals. Current law only allows allopathic physicians, osteopathic physicians, chiropractic physicians, nurses, or dentists to use direct primary care agreements. The bill also changes other regulations for podiatrists,…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The goal of SB 1516 is to increase the number of organ donors in Florida. The bill contains one health insurance related provision. That provisions prohibits health insurance policies from excluding coverage under a preexisting condition provision solely because the insured is an organ donor. Another part of…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 1205 deals with disclosures from health care providers to patients when the cash price for a covered medical service is cheaper than the patient’s cost sharing obligation under health insurance. The bill is one of a large number of House health care reform bills designed to further Speaker…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel SB 1556 and HB 1179 prohibit specified entities from denying, refusing to allocate, or lowering an individual’s priority for organ transplant medical services solely on the basis of an individual’s intellectual or developmental disability. The insurance part of the bills prohibits insurers, nonprofit health care service plans, and health…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House Health and Human Services Committee approved HB 955 during its meeting on February 12, 2020 without amendment. This was the last committee stop for the bill so it will now be heard on the House floor when set by the Rules Committee. The bill curtails physician referrals…