Title: Postpartum Medicaid Coverage

Summary: Authorizes AHCA to make payments for medical assistance & related services during specified period to certain Medicaid-eligible postpartum women; authorizes agency to seek federal waiver approval or submit state plan amendments as necessary.

Full Text:
An act relating to postpartum Medicaid coverage; amending s. 409.904, F.S.; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to make payments for medical assistance and related services during a specified period to certain Medicaid-eligible postpartum women; authorizing the agency to seek federal waiver approval or submit state plan amendments as necessary; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Subsection (13) is added to section 409.904, Florida Statutes, to read: 409.904 Optional payments for eligible persons.-The agency may make payments for medical assistance and related services on behalf of the following persons who are determined to be eligible subject to the income, assets, and categorical eligibility tests set forth in federal and state law. Payment on behalf of these Medicaid eligible persons is subject to the availability of mo neys and any limitations established by the General Appropriations Act or chapter 216. (13) Subject to federal waiver approval, a postpartum woman, eligible for Medicaid under s. 409.903(5), for a period of months or days. The agency may seek fede ral waiver HB 2021 approval or submit any state plan amendments necessary to implement this subsection. Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.