This bill relates to healthcare reforms in Florida. It requires physicians to provide several specified types of information to the Department of Health for consolidation, introduces reforms to the Dental Student Loan Repayment Program, and renames the Medical Education Reimbursement and Loan Repayment Program to the Florida Reimbursement Assistance for Medical Education Program. It also establishes a health care screening and services grant program, expands the telehealth minority maternity care program to a statewide level, and sets requirements for birth centers to be designated as advanced birth centers. The bill reforms eligibility and licensing [...]

This bill is about ensuring transparency in health care services. It puts limitations on how long health care providers can take to collect medical debt and imposes additional personal property exemptions for medical debts. Health care facilities must post charges for services or a price estimator tool on their websites for consumers to access easily. They must provide estimates to patients and their health insurers within specified timeframes and establish a grievance process for patients to dispute charges. The bill also defines terms like "extraordinary collection action" and outlines actions health care facilities are [...]