641.545 – Subscriber risk assessments; requirements.
641.545 Subscriber risk assessments; requirements.—The agency shall require an organization, when providing services to Medicaid subscribers, to attempt, at least twice if necessary, to contact each new Medicaid subscriber within 3 months after the Medicaid subscriber enrolls, in order to perform a health risk assessment. The health risk assessment instrument must include questions regarding early and […]
641.455 – Disposition of moneys collected under this part.
641.455 Disposition of moneys collected under this part.—Fees, administrative penalties, examination expenses, and other sums collected by the office under this part shall be deposited to the credit of the Insurance Regulatory Trust Fund; however, fees, examination expenses, and other sums collected by, or allocated to, the Agency for Health Care Administration under this part shall […]
641.55 – Internal risk management program.
641.55 Internal risk management program.— (1) Every organization certified under this part shall, as a part of its administrative functions, establish an internal risk management program which shall include the following components: (a) The investigation and analysis of the frequency and causes of general categories and specific types of adverse incidents causing injury to patients; (b) The development of […]
641.457 – Exemption for certain operational prepaid health clinics.
641.457 Exemption for certain operational prepaid health clinics.—The provisions of this part do not apply to those prepaid health clinics providing the services defined in ss. 641.40-641.459, which clinics have been continuously engaged in providing such services since January 1, 1947, provided that any prepaid health clinic claiming an exemption under this section notified the former […]
641.56 – Rulemaking authority.
641.56 Rulemaking authority.—The Agency for Health Care Administration has authority to adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to implement the provisions of this part conferring duties upon it. History.—ss. 24, 27, ch. 87-236; ss. 187, 188, ch. 91-108; s. 91, ch. 91-282; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 38, ch. 96-199; s. 215, ch. 98-200.
641.438 – Genetic information restrictions.
641.438 Genetic information restrictions.—A prepaid health clinic must comply with the provisions of s. 627.4301. History.—s. 6, ch. 97-182.
641.44 – Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices prohibited.
641.44 Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices prohibited.—No person, entity, or prepaid health clinic shall engage in this state in any trade practice which is defined in this part as, or determined pursuant to s. 641.437 to be, an unfair method of competition or an unfair or deceptive act or practice […]
641.441 – Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices defined.
641.441 Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices defined.—The following are defined as unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices: (1) MISREPRESENTATION AND FALSE ADVERTISING OF PREPAID HEALTH CLINIC CONTRACTS.—Knowingly making, issuing, circulating, or causing to be made, issued, or circulated, any estimate, illustration, circular, statement, sales presentation, omission, […]
641.442 – Penalty for operation of prepaid health clinic, or issuance, delivery, or renewal of prepaid health clinic contract, without certificate of authority.
641.442 Penalty for operation of prepaid health clinic, or issuance, delivery, or renewal of prepaid health clinic contract, without certificate of authority.—Any person or entity that operates a prepaid health clinic, or issues, delivers, or renews any prepaid health clinic contract, without first obtaining and then maintaining thereafter a certificate of authority is guilty of a […]
641.443 – Temporary restraining orders.
641.443 Temporary restraining orders.— (1) The office is vested with the power to seek a temporary restraining order: (a) On behalf of the office or on behalf of a subscriber or subscribers of a prepaid health clinic that is being operated by a person or entity without a subsisting certificate of authority; or (b) On behalf of the office […]