Florida-House Looking at Establishing a Health Insurance Exchange

A House health care spending panel will tackle on Tuesday a bill that would limit emergency room services to nonpregnant adults to 12 visits per year and also would limit chiropractic and pediatric services to Medicaid patients under the age of 21 only.

The proposed committee bill, HCAS 2, was filed late Friday and will be heard by the House Health and Human Services Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday. Tucked into the Medicaid, bill, though also is a proposal that could lay the development for a state or federal health insurance exchange.

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The Agency for Health Care Administration is directed to develop the Internet site under the proposed bill, though it will be governed by an executive steering committee, comprised of three AHCA staff members and three Department of Children and Families staff members. The site would prove information explaining benefits, premiums and cost sharing available through the various programs as well as any state or federal health insurance exchange.

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Hat tip: The Florida Current