Amendment
Bill No. 0805
Amendment No. 879163
CHAMBER ACTION
Senate House
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1Representative(s) Benson offered the following:
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3     Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
4     Between lines 116 and 117, insert:
5     (3)(a)  An insurer that issues a group health insurance
6policy shall provide a hospital, physician, or other person
7rendering services covered by the policy electronic access to
8the covered person's eligibility and benefits information
9through a secure Internet website. The eligibility and benefits
10information shall comply with the transaction standards
11specified in ANSI ASC X12N 270 for health care claim eligibility
12inquiries and ANSI ASC X12N 271 for health care claim
13eligibility responses, or successor transaction standards,
14pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
15Act.
16     (b)  An insurer shall develop an implementation plan to
17comply with paragraph (a) no later than March 31, 2007, and
18shall make the eligibility and benefits information described in
19this subsection available through a secure Internet website no
20later than July 1, 2007.
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24     Remove lines 84 and 85 and insert:
25Florida Statutes, is renumbered as subsection (4), and new
26subsections (2) and (3) are added to that section, to read:
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29     Remove line 15 and insert:
30under group health insurance policies; requiring certain
31insurers to provide to certain service providers by an Internet
32website certain information relating to a covered person;
33providing criteria; specifying time requirements for such
34insurers to implement such requirements; amending s. 641.31,


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