Florida SB 348: Medicaid

Bill Text

348 
Statewide Health Care Coverage 
2025-11-04T04:31:58Z 
Establishing the Task Force on Universal Health Care for a specified purpose; directing all agencies of state government to assist the task force, including furnishing information and advice deemed necessary by the task force; providing for the membership, meetings, and funding of the task force; requiring the task force to establish an advisory committee for a specified purpose; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to develop a plan for a Medicaid buy-in program or a public health care option for certain residents of this state, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 348 

 By Senator Smith 

 17-00061-26 2026348__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to statewide health care coverage; 
 3 defining terms; establishing the Task Force on 
 4 Universal Health Care for a specified purpose; 
 5 requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and 
 6 Government Accountability (OPPAGA) to provide staff 
 7 support to the task force; directing all agencies of 
 8 state government to assist the task force, including 
 9 furnishing information and advice deemed necessary by 
 10 the task force; providing for the membership, 
 11 meetings, and funding of the task force; requiring the 
 12 task force to establish an advisory committee for a 
 13 specified purpose; providing for the membership of the 
 14 advisory committee; authorizing the task force to 
 15 establish additional advisory and technical 
 16 committees; specifying duties of the task force; 
 17 requiring the task force to consider specified values 
 18 and parameters in developing certain recommendations; 
 19 requiring the task force to make findings and 
 20 recommendations for the design of the Health Care for 
 21 All Florida Plan and for the Health Care for All 
 22 Florida Board to administer the plan; specifying 
 23 requirements for the design of the plan; specifying 
 24 requirements for the plan and factors the task force 
 25 must include in its recommendations; requiring the 
 26 task force to engage in a public process to solicit 
 27 public input on certain elements of the plan; 
 28 specifying requirements for such process; specifying 
 29 requirements for the report of the task force’s 
 30 findings and recommendations; requiring that task 
 31 force members be appointed by a specified date; 
 32 requiring OPPAGA to begin preparing a work plan for 
 33 the task force by a specified date; requiring the task 
 34 force to submit a report of its findings and 
 35 recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature by 
 36 a specified date; requiring the Agency for Health Care 
 37 Administration to develop a plan for a Medicaid buy-in 
 38 program or a public health care option for certain 
 39 residents of this state; specifying requirements for 
 40 the plan; requiring the agency to report its plan to 
 41 the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date; 
 42 providing for the future repeal of specified 
 43 provisions; providing an appropriation; providing an 
 44 effective date. 
 45 
 46 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 47 
 48 Section 1. Task Force on Universal Health Care for 
 49 Florida.— 
 50 (1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the term: 
 51 (a) “Group practice” means a single legal entity composed 
 52 of individual providers organized as a partnership, professional 
 53 corporation, limited liability company, foundation, nonprofit 
 54 corporation, or faculty practice plan or a similar association 
 55 in which: 
 56 1. Each individual provider uses office space, facilities, 
 57 equipment, and personnel shared with other individual providers 
 58 to deliver medical care, consultation, diagnosis, treatment, or 
 59 other services that the provider routinely delivers in the 
 60 provider’s practice; 
 61 2. Substantially all of the services delivered by the 
 62 individual providers are delivered on behalf of the group 
 63 practice and billed as services provided by the group practice; 
 64 3. Substantially all of the payments to the group practice 
 65 are to reimburse the cost of services provided by the individual 
 66 providers in the group practice; 
 67 4. The overhead expenses of, and the income from, the group 
 68 practice are shared among the individual providers in the group 
 69 practice in accordance with methods agreed to by the individual 
 70 providers who are members of the group practice; and 
 71 5. There is a unified business model with consolidated 
 72 billing, accounting, and financial reporting and a centralized 
 73 decisionmaking body that represents the individual providers who 
 74 are members of the group practice. 
 75 (b) “Individual provider” means a health care practitioner 
 76 who is licensed, certified, or registered in this state or who 
 77 is licensed, certified, or registered to provide care in another 
 78 state or count