Senate Bill 2118c1

    Florida Senate - 1999                           CS for SB 2118

    By the Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care; and
    Senator Dawson-White




    317-2080-99

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to child protection team

  3         services; amending s. 39.202, F.S.; authorizing

  4         the sharing of otherwise confidential

  5         information with health plan payers for

  6         purposes of reimbursement for child protection

  7         team services; providing an effective date.

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  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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11         Section 1.  Subsection (5) of section 39.202, Florida

12  Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to read:

13         39.202  Confidentiality of reports and records in cases

14  of child abuse or neglect.--

15         (5)  All records and reports of the child protection

16  team of the Department of Health are confidential and exempt

17  from the provisions of ss. 119.07(1) and 455.667, and shall

18  not be disclosed, except, upon request, to the state attorney,

19  law enforcement, the department, and necessary professionals,

20  in furtherance of the treatment or additional evaluative needs

21  of the child or by order of the court, or to health plan

22  payers, limited to that information used for insurance

23  reimbursement purposes.

24         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1999.

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    Florida Senate - 1999                           CS for SB 2118
    317-2080-99




  1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
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  4  This bill replaces revisions to the MediPass law and the law
    regulating commercial health maintenance organizations that
  5  prohibited preauthorization of child protection team services
    with language that provides for release of limited child
  6  protection team information to health maintenance
    organizations and other health plan payors for purposes of
  7  reimbursement of evaluative and diagnostic services rendered
    in child abuse, abandonment, or neglect cases.
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