Senate Bill 0062c1

    Florida Senate - 1999                             CS for SB 62

    By the Committee on Banking and Insurance; and Senators
    Thomas, Mitchell, Gutman, Geller, Dawson-White, Campbell and
    Casas



    311-1626-99

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to bone marrow transplant

  3         procedures; amending s. 627.4236, F.S.;

  4         requiring that coverage for

  5         bone-marrow-transplant procedures include costs

  6         of the donor patient; making a legislative

  7         finding that the provisions of this act fulfill

  8         an important state interest; providing an

  9         effective date.

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

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13         Section 1.  Subsection (2) of section 627.4236, Florida

14  Statutes, is amended to read:

15         627.4236  Coverage for bone marrow transplant

16  procedures.--

17         (2)  An insurer or a health maintenance organization

18  may not exclude coverage for bone marrow transplant procedures

19  recommended by the referring physician and the treating

20  physician under a policy exclusion for experimental, clinical

21  investigative, educational, or similar procedures contained in

22  any individual or group health insurance policy or health

23  maintenance organization contract issued, amended, delivered,

24  or renewed in this state that covers treatment for cancer, if

25  the particular use of the bone marrow transplant procedure is

26  determined to be accepted within the appropriate oncological

27  specialty and not experimental pursuant to subsection (3).

28  Covered bone-marrow-transplant procedures must include costs

29  associated with the donor-patient to the same extent and

30  limitations as costs associated with the insured.

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    Florida Senate - 1999                             CS for SB 62
    311-1626-99




  1         Section 2.  The Legislature finds that the provisions

  2  of this act fulfill an important state interest.

  3         Section 3.  This act shall take effect January 1, 2000.

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  5          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  6                          Senate Bill 62

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  8  Makes a legislative finding that the provisions of this bill
    fulfill an important state interest.
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    Changes the effective date from July 1, 1999, to January 1,
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