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DFS Discusses Navigator Registration

DFS Discusses Navigator Registration

The Florida Department of Financial Services has published a compliance reminder relating to the registration of navigators.  The following identifies the guidance recently published by DFS. What is a navigator? “Navigator” means an individual authorized by the Federally-Facilitated Exchange (Exchange), also known as the Marketplace to serve as a navigator, or who works on behalf […]

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OIR Issues Guidance on PPACA Filings

OIR Issues Guidance on PPACA Filings

The Office of Insurance Regulation has provided the following overview is intended to assist the industry in understanding the PPACA filing process and deadlines, as well as, to provide insight into how the Office will allocate resources to meet federal timeframes. PPACA Filing Deadlines According to the final United States Department of Health & Human […]

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PPACA Conformity Bill Signed Into Law

PPACA Conformity Bill Signed Into Law

Governor Rick Scott has signed SB 1842 pertaining to health insurance into law.  The law makes changes to the Florida Insurance Code necessary to allow the state’s regulations to conform to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).  Among its provisions, the new law will allow the Office of Insurance Regulation to review health […]

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Federal Judge in Pensacola Declares Individual Mandate In PPACA Unconstitutional, Strikes Down Entire Act

Federal Judge in Pensacola Declares Individual Mandate In PPACA Unconstitutional, Strikes Down Entire Act

Today Judge Roger Vinson of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida – Pensacola Division agreed with Florida and twenty-five other states that the federal government cannot force its citizens to buy health insurance as it sought to do in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as amended (“PPACA”).  After concluding […]

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Commissioner McCarty Joins in NAIC Letter on PPACA

Commissioner McCarty Joins in NAIC Letter on PPACA

Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty and other state insurance commissioners recently wrote to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius regarding concerns with the medical loss ratio requirements arising from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).  Under the PPACA, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) must develop uniform definitions […]

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