Senate Bill sb1500

    Florida Senate - 2005                                  SB 1500

    By Senator Wilson





    33-768-05

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to eligibility for Medicaid

  3         payments; amending s. 409.903, F.S.; increasing

  4         the income level at which a pregnant woman is

  5         eligible to receive Medicaid services;

  6         providing an effective date.

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

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10         Section 1.  Subsection (5) of section 409.903, Florida

11  Statutes, is amended to read:

12         409.903  Mandatory payments for eligible persons.--The

13  agency shall make payments for medical assistance and related

14  services on behalf of the following persons who the

15  department, or the Social Security Administration by contract

16  with the Department of Children and Family Services,

17  determines to be eligible, subject to the income, assets, and

18  categorical eligibility tests set forth in federal and state

19  law.  Payment on behalf of these Medicaid eligible persons is

20  subject to the availability of moneys and any limitations

21  established by the General Appropriations Act or chapter 216.

22         (5)  A pregnant woman for the duration of her pregnancy

23  and for the postpartum period as defined in federal law and

24  rule, or a child under age 1, if either is living in a family

25  that has an income which is at or below 150 percent of the

26  most current federal poverty level, or, effective January 1,

27  1992, that has an income which is at or below 185 percent of

28  the most current federal poverty level. Such a person is not

29  subject to an assets test. Further, a pregnant woman who

30  applies for eligibility for the Medicaid program through a

31  qualified Medicaid provider must be offered the opportunity,

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    Florida Senate - 2005                                  SB 1500
    33-768-05




 1  subject to federal rules, to be made presumptively eligible

 2  for the Medicaid program. Effective July 1, 2005, eligibility

 3  for Medicaid services is eliminated for women who have incomes

 4  above 185 150 percent of the most current federal poverty

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 6         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

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11    Increases the income level, from 150 percent to 185
      percent above the federal poverty level, at which a
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