Recap: Meeting of the Florida Health Insurance Advisory Board

On November 2, 2007, the Florida Health Insurance Advisory Board (“Board”) met in Orlando, Florida for the purpose of discussing and adopting its 2008 legislative recommendations.  Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty, opened the meeting with brief introductory remarks and led a discussion on the legislative issues that were up for consideration.

For your review, we have attached a copy of the legislative items that were considered by the Board.  Please note that items 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, and 15 were accepted by the Board pursuant to a Consent Agenda.  Also, the Board removed item 12 relating to a pilot program for subsidizing health insurance for low income persons.

Below is a brief summary of the remaining items, which are included in the attachment and were discussed during the Board meeting.

Item 1 regarding removing impediments that discourage micro-groups from obtaining health insurance was discussed and adopted with changes.  

Item 2 regarding competitive advantages for out-of-state groups was discussed and adopted with changes.

Item 3 regarding the opposition to additional mandates was discussed and adopted with changes.

Item 4 regarding increasing the age limit to 30 for retention on a parent’s health insurance plan was discussed and adopted.

Item 5 regarding requiring all college students not covered under a federal HIPAA credible coverage health insurance policy to purchase such a policy was discussed and adopted.

Item 6 regarding delaying the sunset provision applicable to the health flex plan was discussed and adopted with changes.

Item 7 regarding transparency was discussed and adopted.

Item 14 regarding broadening the membership of the low income pool was discussed and adopted with changes.

 

Next, the Board approved the Minutes from the September 17 and 25, 2007 meetings.

The Board also discussed the development of a website.  A motion for the development of a website and a motion to use “Marketing for Change” as the website provider were both approved.

The Board discussed and approved a wire transfer of funds procedure.
           
The Board heard the Executive Director’s Report and it was noted that the conference call for next Friday would be cancelled because the Board completed their business at today’s meeting.

The Board discussed when the next meeting would be held and concluded that it would likely be after January 1, 2008.

There being no further business before the Board, the meeting was adjourned.

 

 

 

 

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