Senate Bill 1510

    Florida Senate - 2000                                  SB 1510

    By Senator Brown-Waite





    10-1651-00

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to public meetings; providing

  3         an exemption from public meetings requirements

  4         for certain portions of meetings of the

  5         statewide provider and managed care claim

  6         dispute mediation panel; providing a contingent

  7         effective date.

  8

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

10

11         Section 1.  Meetings of the statewide provider and

12  managed care claim dispute mediation panel, which is created

13  under section 408.7057, Florida Statutes, are open to the

14  public unless the Agency for Health Care Administration or the

15  Department of Insurance determines that information of a

16  sensitive personal nature which discloses the medical

17  treatment or history of a  health maintenance organization's

18  or a managed care organization's subscriber, information

19  constituting a trade secret as defined by section 812.081,

20  Florida Statutes, or information relating to internal risk

21  management programs as defined in section 641.55(5)(c), (6),

22  and (8), Florida Statutes, may be revealed at the panel

23  meeting, in which case that portion of the meeting during

24  which any such information is discussed shall be exempt from

25  the provisions of section 286.011, Florida Statutes, and

26  Section 24(b), Article I of the State Constitution. Any closed

27  meeting must be recorded by a certified court reporter.

28         Section 2.  (1)  The Legislature finds that it is a

29  public necessity that information of a sensitive personal

30  nature concerning an HMO or MCO subscriber's medical treatment

31  or history be confidential and exempt from public meetings

                                  1

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 2000                                  SB 1510
    10-1651-00




  1  requirements because disclosure of such information is highly

  2  likely to harm the person to whom the information pertains.

  3         (2)  The Legislature further finds that it is a public

  4  necessity that information that constitutes a trade secret as

  5  defined by section 812.081, Florida Statutes, and information

  6  relating to internal risk management programs as defined in

  7  section 641.55(5)(c), (6), and (8), Florida Statutes, be

  8  confidential and exempt from public meetings requirements

  9  because the disclosure of such information is harmful,

10  respectively, to the competitive standing of the trade

11  secret's owner or to the prospective success of the internal

12  risk management program in preserving the integrity of the

13  program.

14         Section 3.  This act shall take effect on the same date

15  that Senate Bill     or similar legislation providing for the

16  establishment of a statewide provider and managed care

17  organization claim dispute mediation panel takes effect, if

18  such legislation is adopted in the same legislative session or

19  an extension thereof.

20

21            *****************************************

22                          SENATE SUMMARY

23    Provides an exemption from public meetings requirements
      for those portions of the meetings of the statewide
24    provider and managed care claim dispute mediation panel
      which include discussions of information disclosing the
25    medical treatment or history of a health maintenance
      organization's subscriber, information constituting a
26    trade secret, or information relating to internal risk
      management programs.
27

28

29

30

31

                                  2