HB 1365 (see companion bill SB 1466)
Health Care Provider Accountability: Provides immunity to health care workers of hospitals & nursing home facilities who carry out directives of supervising health care practitioner or entity; requires AHCA to provide report on success of personal care attendant program; requires nursing home facilities to report to agency common ownership relationships they or their parent companies share with certain entities; requires agency to submit report of such reported common ownership relationships to Governor & Legislature; revises rate methodology for agency's long-term care reimbursement plan; requires agency to add quality metric to its Quality Incentive Program [...]
SB 1466 (see companion bill HB 1365)
Health Care Provider Accountability: Provides immunity to health care workers of hospitals & nursing home facilities who carry out directives of supervising health care practitioner or entity; requires AHCA to provide report on success of personal care attendant program; requires nursing home facilities to report to agency common ownership relationships they or their parent companies share with certain entities; requires agency to submit report of such reported common ownership relationships to Governor & Legislature; revises rate methodology for agency's long-term care reimbursement plan; requires agency to add quality metric to its Quality Incentive Program [...]
SB 1498
Invalid Restrictive Covenants in Health Care: Specifying that certain restrictive covenants in employment agreements relating to certain licensed physicians do not support a legitimate business interest; specifying such restrictive covenants are void and unenforceable, etc.
HB 1509 (see companion bill SB 1550)
Prescription Drugs: Requires drug manufacturers to notify DBPR of reportable drug price increases; prohibits manufacturers from claiming public records exemption for trade secrets for information provided in forms or reports; requires DFS to designate employee as primary contact on issues relating to PBMs; provides penalty for persons who do not hold certificate of authority to act as administrator; requires PBMs to identify ownership affiliations to office; provides requirements for contracts between PBM & participating pharmacy; provides for biennial examinations of PBMs.
SB 1550 (see companion bill HB 1509)
Prescription Drugs: Citing this act as the "Prescription Drug Reform Act"; specifying additional prohibited acts related to the Florida Drug and Cosmetic Act; requiring certain drug manufacturers to notify the Department of Business and Professional Regulation of reportable drug price increases on a specified form on the effective date of such increase; requiring the Division of Consumer Services of the Department of Financial Services to designate an employee as the primary contact for consumer complaints involving pharmacy benefit managers; providing a grandfathering provision for certain pharmacy benefit managers operating as administrators; requiring pharmacy benefits [...]
SB 112 (see companion bill HB 183)
Medicaid Step-therapy Protocols for Drugs for Serious Mental Illness Treatments: Defines "serious mental illness"; requires AHCA to approve drug products for Medicaid recipients for treatment of serious mental illness without step-therapy prior authorization; directs agency to include rate impact of this act in certain program rates that become effective on specified date.
SB 46 (see companion bill HB 1063)
Health Insurance Cost Sharing: Requiring specified individual health insurers and their pharmacy benefit managers to apply payments by or on behalf of insureds toward the total contributions of the insureds’ cost-sharing requirements; requiring specified contracts to require pharmacy benefit managers to apply payments by or on behalf of insureds toward the insureds’ total contributions to cost-sharing requirements; requiring specified group health insurers and their pharmacy benefit managers to apply payments by or on behalf of insureds toward the total contributions of the insureds’ cost-sharing requirements; requiring specified contracts to require pharmacy benefit managers to [...]
HB 1063 (see companion bill SB 46)
Health Insurance Cost Sharing: Requiring specified individual health insurers and their pharmacy benefit managers to apply payments by or on behalf of insureds toward the total contributions of the insureds’ cost-sharing requirements; requiring specified contracts to require pharmacy benefit managers to apply payments by or on behalf of insureds toward the insureds’ total contributions to cost-sharing requirements; requiring specified group health insurers and their pharmacy benefit managers to apply payments by or on behalf of insureds toward the total contributions of the insureds’ cost-sharing requirements; requiring specified contracts to require pharmacy benefit managers to [...]