Florida SB 740: Administration of Justice

Bill Text

740 
Comprehensive Health Care for Residents 
2025-12-03T08:37:46Z 
Creating the “Florida Health Plan”; authorizing the Florida Health Board to establish certain financial arrangements with other states and foreign countries under certain circumstances; prohibiting cost-sharing requirements from being imposed on enrollees; providing that defaults, underpayments, and late payments of certain obligations result in certain remedies and penalties; providing for eligible health care providers to participate in the plan; creating the Office of Health Quality and Planning, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
S 
2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 740 

 By Senator Osgood 

 32-00791-26 2026740__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to comprehensive health care for 
 3 residents; creating part IV of ch. 641, F.S., entitled 
 4 the “Healthy Florida Act”; creating s. 641.71, F.S.; 
 5 providing a short title; creating s. 641.72, F.S.; 
 6 providing the purpose of the Florida Health Plan; 
 7 creating s. 641.73, F.S.; defining terms; creating s. 
 8 641.74, F.S.; providing for eligibility for and 
 9 coverage of the plan; authorizing the Florida Health 
 10 Board to establish certain financial arrangements with 
 11 other states and foreign countries under certain 
 12 circumstances; providing reimbursement rates; 
 13 prohibiting healthcare providers from billing the 
 14 patient for covered services under certain 
 15 circumstances; providing duties of the board relating 
 16 to plan enrollment; providing enrollment requirements; 
 17 providing that certain data collected through plan 
 18 applications and enrollment is private data; 
 19 authorizing such data to be released to certain 
 20 persons for specified purposes; creating s. 641.755, 
 21 F.S.; authorizing plan enrollees to choose to receive 
 22 services from certain health care providers; providing 
 23 covered health care benefits; authorizing the board to 
 24 expand health care benefits under certain 
 25 circumstances; specifying health care services that 
 26 are not covered by the plan; requiring enrollees to 
 27 have primary care providers and access to care 
 28 coordination; authorizing enrollees to see health care 
 29 specialists without referral; authorizing the board to 
 30 establish a computerized registry; authorizing the 
 31 plan employees to assist enrollees in choosing primary 
 32 care providers; prohibiting cost-sharing requirements 
 33 from being imposed on enrollees; creating s. 641.77, 
 34 F.S.; requiring the board to secure repeals and 
 35 waivers of certain provisions of federal law; 
 36 requiring the Department of Health and the Agency for 
 37 Health Care Administration to provide assistance to 
 38 the board; requiring the board to adopt rules under 
 39 certain circumstances; providing that the plan’s 
 40 responsibility for providing health care is secondary 
 41 to existing Federal Government programs under certain 
 42 circumstances; creating s. 641.78, F.S.; defining the 
 43 term “collateral source”; requiring the plan to 
 44 collect health care costs from collateral sources 
 45 under certain circumstances; requiring the board to 
 46 negotiate waivers, seek federal legislation, and make 
 47 arrangements to incorporate collateral sources into 
 48 the plan; requiring plan enrollees to notify health 
 49 care providers of collateral sources and health care 
 50 providers to forward such information to the board; 
 51 authorizing the board to take appropriate actions to 
 52 recover reimbursement from collateral sources; 
 53 requiring collateral sources to pay for health care 
 54 services under certain circumstances; providing 
 55 specified authority and rights to the board relating 
 56 to collateral sources; creating s. 641.791, F.S.; 
 57 providing that defaults, underpayments, and late 
 58 payments of certain obligations result in certain 
 59 remedies and penalties; prohibiting eligibility for 
 60 health care benefits from being impaired by such 
 61 defaults, underpayments, and late payments; creating 
 62 s. 641.792, F.S.; providing for eligible health care 
 63 providers to participate in the plan; requiring 
 64 participating providers to comply with certain federal 
 65 laws and regulations; providing that patient care may 
 66 not be affected by fee schedules and financial 
 67 incentives; providing requirements for the payment 
 68 system for noninstitutional providers; providing 
 69 requirements for the annual budgets for institutional 
 70 providers; requiring the board to develop a capital 
 71 investment plan; prohibiting noninstitutional and 
 72 institutional providers that accept payments from the 
 73 plan from billing patients; providing requirements for 
 74 capital expenditures by institutional and 
 75 noninstitutional providers which exceed a specified 
 76 amount; requiring the board to establish payment 
 77 criteria and payment methods f