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Senate Bill 0228
    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 228

    By Senator Gutman





    34-327-98                                               See HB

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to health insurance; creating

  3         s. 627.64193, F.S.; providing prohibitions and

  4         requirements relating to congenital

  5         cranio-facial anomalies of dependent children;

  6         providing a legislative determination of

  7         important state interest; providing an

  8         effective date.

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10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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12         Section 1.  Section 627.64193, Florida Statutes, is

13  created to read:

14         627.64193  Requirements with respect to congenital

15  cranio-facial anomalies of dependent children.--An insurer may

16  not deny the issuance or renewal of, or cancel, a policy of

17  accident insurance or health insurance, or include any

18  exception or exclusion of benefits in a policy, solely because

19  the insured has a dependent child who has been diagnosed as

20  having a congenital cranio-facial anomaly, or deny coverage

21  under any such policy for any medical, dental, speech, mental

22  health, or genetic counseling services performed by a licensed

23  professional if such services are prescribed by the treating

24  physician or surgeon and such physician or surgeon certifies

25  such services are consequent to a congenital cranio-facial

26  anomaly of a dependent child.  This section also applies to a

27  policy of group, blanket, or franchise accident or health

28  insurance and to a contract or evidence of coverage issued by

29  a health maintenance organization.

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    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 228
    34-327-98                                               See HB




  1         Section 2.  Pursuant to section 18, Article VII of the

  2  State Constitution, the Legislature determines that this act

  3  fulfills an important state interest.

  4         Section 3.  This act shall take effect October 1 of the

  5  year in which enacted.

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      Prohibits insurers from denying the issuance or renewal
10    of, or canceling, accident insurance or health insurance
      policies, or from including any exception or exclusion of
11    benefits in a policy, solely because the insured has a
      dependent child who has been diagnosed as having a
12    congenital cranio-facial anomaly, or from denying
      coverage for medical, dental, speech, mental health, or
13    genetic counseling services prescribed by a treating
      physician or surgeon who certifies such services are
14    consequent to a congenital cranio-facial anomaly of a
      dependent child.
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