Florida Senate Bill 898 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on May 3 2013 - 100% progression
Action: 2013-05-03 - Died in Banking and Insurance
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requiring health insurers, corporations, and health maintenance organizations issuing certain health policies to provide coverage for telemedicine services; prohibiting the exclusion of telemedicine cost coverage solely because the services were not provided face to face; prohibiting the imposition of certain dollar and durational coverage limitations or copayments, coinsurance, or deductibles on telemedicine services unless imposed equally on all terms and services; providing coverage under the state plan or a waiver for health home services provided to eligible individuals with chronic conditions, etc.

Health Care Coverage

Sen. Arthenia Joyner [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-05-03	Senate	Died in Banking and Insurance
2013-04-04	Senate	Now in Banking and Insurance
2013-04-03	Senate	Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Amendments)
2013-04-02	Senate	Favorable with 1 amendment(s) by Health Policy (159956); YEAS 8 NAYS 0
2013-03-28	Senate	On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 04/02/13, 12:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
2013-03-05	Senate	Introduced
2013-02-19	Senate	Referred to Health Policy; Banking and Insurance; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations
2013-02-14	Senate	Filed

H0499 (Same As) 2013-05-03 - Died in Health Innovation Subcommittee

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
456	001		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2013/898
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2013/0898/BillText/Filed/HTML
Amendment	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2013/0898/Amendment/698240/HTML
Amendment	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2013/0898/Amendment/769334/HTML
Amendment	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2013/0898/Amendment/159956/HTML