Florida Senate - 2025                                     SB 876
       
       
        
       By Senator Berman
       
       
       
       
       
       26-01316-25                                            2025876__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to chimeric antigen receptor T-cell
    3         therapy; creating ss. 627.64198, 627.6614, and
    4         641.31078, F.S.; prohibiting health insurers and
    5         health maintenance organizations issuing, delivering,
    6         or renewing certain policies or contracts from
    7         refusing to contract with or denying coverage for
    8         certain providers of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell
    9         therapy; providing an effective date.
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   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. Section 627.64198, Florida Statutes, is created
   14  to read:
   15         627.64198 CAR-T therapy providers.—A health insurer
   16  issuing, delivering, or renewing a health insurance policy in
   17  this state on or after January 1, 2026, which provides coverage
   18  for chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy may not
   19  refuse to contract with or deny coverage for the administration
   20  of CAR-T therapy by any provider that qualifies as a certified
   21  health care facility under the Food and Drug Administration
   22  procedure for the CAR-T product license and that is included in
   23  the policy’s provider network for any other service.
   24         Section 2. Section 627.6614, Florida Statutes, is created
   25  to read:
   26         627.6614 CAR-T therapy providers.—A health insurer issuing,
   27  delivering, or renewing a group health insurance policy in this
   28  state on or after January 1, 2026, which provides coverage for
   29  chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy may not refuse
   30  to contract with or deny coverage for the administration of CAR
   31  T therapy by any provider that qualifies as a certified health
   32  care facility under the Food and Drug Administration procedure
   33  for the CAR-T product license and that is included in the
   34  policy’s provider network for any other service.
   35         Section 3. Section 641.31078, Florida Statutes, is created
   36  to read:
   37         641.31078 CAR-T therapy providers.—A health maintenance
   38  organization issuing, delivering, or renewing a health
   39  maintenance contract in this state on or after January 1, 2026,
   40  which provides coverage for chimeric antigen receptor T-cell
   41  (CAR-T) therapy may not refuse to contract with or deny coverage
   42  for the administration of CAR-T therapy by any provider that
   43  qualifies as a certified health care facility under the Food and
   44  Drug Administration procedure for the CAR-T product license and
   45  that is included in the policy’s provider network for any other
   46  service.
   47         Section 4. This act shall take effect January 1, 2026.