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Legislative Alert

Work Incentive Medicaid Coverage

We are pleased to report that SB 2684, Optional Payments for Medical Assistance, has been referred to the Health Policy, Children, Family and Elder Affairs and Health and Human Services Appropriations Committee.

We need you help to make sure that HB 1311, the House version of the bill is heard in committee. It was referred to Health Care Innovations, but that group is no longer meeting.

Please call or email Representative. Bean, Chair of the Health Care Council, on Monday. Ask Representative Bean to have HB 1311 heard in the Health Care Council! Rep. Bean's phone is , , or you can email Rep. Bean by clicking here: aaron.bean@...

House Bill 1311 Talking Points/Overview

HB 1311 Optional Payments for Medical Assistance provides Medicaid eligibility for certain persons with disabilities under a Medicaid buy-in program, subject to specific federal authorization. This program would allow people with disabilities to go back to work without fear of losing their Medicaid, as long as they share in paying for their Medicaid services.

Florida is one of only eleven states that does not have this option in its state Medicaid plan.

A December 1999 study by the Able Trust reported that 23 percent of the earned income for an individual with a disability would be returned to the state and federal governments in taxes that the state uses to operate.

Be specific about how HB 1311 will affect you and/or your family.

At this point HB 1311 is not scheduled to be heard by any committee.

We need Rep. Bean to schedule HB 1311 to be heard in the Health Care Council.

Please contact other members of the Health Care Council and ask them to vote YES on this bill!

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