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