Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 924
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/02/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Banking and Insurance (Calatayud) recommended
       the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 24 - 59
    4  and insert:
    5  fertility preservation services when cancer treatments may
    6  directly or indirectly cause iatrogenic infertility.
    7         (b) Coverage of standard fertility preservation services
    8  under this subsection includes the costs associated with
    9  retrieving and preserving sperm and oocyte materials which are
   10  consistent with nationally recognized clinical practice
   11  guidelines and definitions. Coverage of retrieval and storage
   12  expires after a period of 3 years from the date of the
   13  procedures presenting a risk of iatrogenic infertility or when
   14  the individual is no longer covered under the state group health
   15  insurance plan, whichever occurs first.
   16         (c) A state group health insurance plan may not require
   17  preauthorization for coverage of standard fertility retrieval
   18  and preservation services; however, a health benefit plan may
   19  contain provisions for maximum benefits and may subject the
   20  covered service to the same deductible, copayment, and
   21  coinsurance.
   22         (d) As used in this subsection, the term:
   23         1. “Iatrogenic infertility” means an impairment of
   24  fertility caused directly or indirectly by surgery,
   25  chemotherapy, radiation, or other associated medically necessary
   26  treatment with a potential side effect of impaired fertility as
   27  established by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
   28         2. “Nationally recognized clinical practice guidelines and
   29  definitions” mean evidence-based clinical practice guidelines
   30  developed by independent organizations or medical professional
   31  societies using a transparent methodology and reporting
   32  structure and with a conflict-of-interest policy, and
   33  definitions used or established in said guidelines. Guidelines
   34  developed by such organizations or societies must establish
   35  standards of care informed by a systematic review of evidence
   36  and an assessment of the benefits and costs of alternative care
   37  options and include recommendations intended to optimize patient
   38  care.
   39         3. “Standard fertility retrieval and preservation services”
   40  means oocyte and sperm retrieval and preservation procedures and
   41  storage, including ovarian
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   44  And the title is amended as follows:
   45         Delete line 5
   46  and insert:
   47         of certain fertility retrieval and preservation
   48         services for state