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FL HB 1097

dead

Health Insurer Accountability

Florida · 2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Health Insurer Accountability; Requires health plan to participate in filed claim dispute; provides penalties for failure to respond to claim; requires AHCA to notify certain entity within specified timeframe when health plan fails to pay provider; requires health plan to pay provider within specified timeframe after agency's order; provides credentialing requirements for managed care plan; requires each managed care plan to identify to agency & OIR any ownership interest of affiliation of any kind with certain entities; provides requirements for identification of such information; removes provision requiring results of certain audit reports to be dispositive; requires managed care contracts to include provider notifications regarding certain denials of coverage; prohibits insurer from denying certain claims; provides notification requirements & penalties.

Introduced
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Status date
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Latest action
2026-03-13 — Died in Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Berfieldprimary
  • Gonzalez Pittmancosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2026-01-07

    Filed

    filing

  2. 2026-01-12

    Referred to Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee

    referral-committee

  3. 2026-01-12

    Referred to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee

    referral-committee

  4. 2026-01-12

    Referred to Health & Human Services Committee

    referral-committee

  5. 2026-01-12

    Now in Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee

  6. 2026-01-13

    1st Reading (Original Filed Version)

    filing,reading-1

  7. 2026-03-13

    Died in Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee

    failure

Versions

Documents

Votes

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Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1097/ByCategory

Attribution

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