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A bill to be entitled 1
An act relating to claims for adverse reactions to 2
vaccines and drugs under the Medicaid and medically 3
needy programs; providing a short title; creating s. 4
409.9043, F.S.; requiring the Agency for Health Care 5
Administration to expedite the review and payment 6
process for claims related to adverse reactions to 7
vaccines, immunizing agents, and emergency 8
countermeasure drugs under the Medicaid and Florida 9
Medicaid medically needy programs; requiring the 10
agency to publish certain information on its website; 11
requiring the agency to seek federal approval for a 12
specified purpose under certain circumstances and to 13
adopt rules; providing an effective date. 14
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Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 16
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Section 1. This act may be cited as the "Cody's Law: 18
Florida No Vaccine-Injured Patient Left Behind." 19
Section 2. Section 409.9043, Florida Statutes, is created 20
to read: 21
409.9043 Claims for advers e reactions to vaccines, 22
immunizing agents, and emergency countermeasure drugs under the 23
Medicaid and medically needy programs. — 24
(1) The Agency for Health Care Administration shall, under 25
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the Medicaid program and the Florida Medicaid medically needy 26
program, expedite the review and payment process for a claim in 27
which the physician has diagnosed a severe, debilitating, life -28
threatening, or lifelong injury caused by the administration of 29
a vaccine or other immunizing agent or an adverse reaction to an 30
emergency countermeasure drug if the vaccine, immunizing agent, 31
or emergency countermeasure drug is recommended by the United 32
States Food and Drug Administration or the Department of Health 33
of this state. 34
(2)(a) The agency shall publish on its website: 35
1. A list of medical conditions related to a vaccine, 36
immunizing agent, or emergency countermeasure drug for the 37
expedited claims described in subsection (1). 38
2. A list of potential adverse reactions found in the 39
manufacturer's product insert of a vaccine, immunizing agent, or 40
drug which are deemed critical, severe, or temporarily or 41
permanently disabling by the agency or the physicians who make 42
the diagnoses in the claims described in subsection (1). 43
3. Any new medical condition related to a vaccine, 44
immunizing agent, or emergency countermeasure drug which arises. 45
4. Any future vaccine, immunizing agent, or emergency 46
countermeasure drug or treatment deemed appropriate by the 47
agency or by the physicians who make the diagnoses in the claims 48
described in subsection (1). 49
(b) The agency shall also inform its website visitors of 50
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the content of this section, including the requirements under 51
subsection (1), so that physicians or other health care 52
providers may best serve patients who have urgent medical needs 53
as a result of an injury caused by the administration of a 54
vaccine or other immunizing agent or an adverse reaction to an 55
emergency countermeasure drug. 56
(3) The agency shall seek federal approval, if necessary, 57
to implement this section and shall adopt ru les to administer 58
this section. 59
Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025. 60