Bill Text: FL S2142 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

Florida Senate Bill 2142 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Medicaid Postpartum Benefits [WPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-16 - Withdrawn from Health Regulation; Health and Human Services Appropriations; Policy & Steering Committee on Ways and Means -SJ 00635; Withdrawn from further consideration -SJ 00635 [S2142 Detail]

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Florida Senate - 2010                                    SB 2142 
 
By Senator Lawson 
6-01384-10                                            20102142__ 
1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to Medicaid postpartum benefits; 
3         amending s. 409.903, F.S.; providing for continuation 
4         of Medicaid coverage for women eligible for prenatal 
5         care benefits under certain circumstances and for a 
6         specified period postpartum; requiring the Agency for 
7         Health Care Administration to electronically enroll 
8         eligible women; authorizing the agency to seek waiver 
9         authority; providing an effective date. 
10 
11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
12 
13         Section 1. Subsection (5) of section 409.903, Florida 
14  Statutes, is amended to read: 
15         409.903 Mandatory payments for eligible persons.—The agency 
16  shall make payments for medical assistance and related services 
17  on behalf of the following persons who the department, or the 
18  Social Security Administration by contract with the Department 
19  of Children and Family Services, determines to be eligible, 
20  subject to the income, assets, and categorical eligibility tests 
21  set forth in federal and state law. Payment on behalf of these 
22  Medicaid eligible persons is subject to the availability of 
23  moneys and any limitations established by the General 
24  Appropriations Act or chapter 216. 
25         (5)(a) A pregnant woman for the duration of her pregnancy 
26  and for the postpartum period as defined in federal law and 
27  rule, or a child under age 1, if either is living in a family 
28  that has an income which is at or below 150 percent of the most 
29  current federal poverty level, or, effective January 1, 1992, 
30  that has an income which is at or below 185 percent of the most 
31  current federal poverty level. Such a person is not subject to 
32  an assets test. Further, a pregnant woman who applies for 
33  eligibility for the Medicaid program through a qualified 
34  Medicaid provider must be offered the opportunity, subject to 
35  federal rules, to be made presumptively eligible for the 
36  Medicaid program. 
37         (b) Effective January 1, 2011, a woman who was eligible for 
38  Medicaid prenatal care benefits during pregnancy and who 
39  delivered a low birth weight or premature baby or who 
40  experienced a fetal death in the course of her most recent 
41  pregnancy. Such a woman is eligible for full Medicaid benefits 
42  for 2 years postpartum, including primary health care and family 
43  planning services. The agency shall electronically enroll a 
44  woman eligible under this paragraph for full Medicaid benefits 
45  on the date of the delivery of the low birth weight or premature 
46  baby or on the date of the fetal death. The agency may seek a 
47  Medicaid state plan amendment or federal waiver approval to 
48  implement this paragraph. 
49         Section 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2011.