The Florida Senate

¹409.813  Program components; entitlement and nonentitlement.--The Florida Kidcare program includes health benefits coverage provided to children through:

(1)  Medicaid;

(2)  Medikids as created in s. 409.8132;

(3)  The Florida Healthy Kids Corporation as created in s. 624.91;

(4)  Employer-sponsored group health insurance plans approved under ss. 409.810-409.820; and

(5)  The Children's Medical Services network established in chapter 391.

Except for coverage under the Medicaid program, coverage under the Florida Kidcare program is not an entitlement. No cause of action shall arise against the state, the department, the Department of Children and Family Services, or the agency for failure to make health services available to any person under ss. 409.810-409.820.

History.--ss. 35, 57, ch. 98-288.

¹Note.--Section 57, ch. 98-288, provides that:

"Sections 409.810 through 409.820, Florida Statutes, as created by this act, are repealed, subject to prior legislative review, on the first July 1 occurring at least 1 year after the effective date of an act of the United States Congress or the federal Health Care Financing Administration which:

"(1)  Reduces Florida's federal matching rate under Title XXI of the Social Security Act to less than 65 percent federal match; or

"(2)  Reduces the federal funds allotted to Florida under Title XXI of the Social Security Act to less than $250 million annually."