Post by Logan on Feb 8, 2016 3:15:59 GMT -6
TALLAHASSEE | Language in a bill intended to prevent Medicaid fraud has raised red flags among hospital officials and Democrats concerned about patient privacy and cost.
Rep. Dane Eagle is the sponsor of House Bill 1299, a measure intended to reduce public assistance fraud. But much of the discussion during a recent committee meeting focused on a provision that requires Florida hospitals to install software that allows them to use biometrics and the state driver license database to check patient identification.
“The question is, are they who they say they are?” Eagle, R-Cape Coral said.
When the bill came up for a vote last month in the House Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee, Rep. Amanda Murphy proposed an amendment that struck the requirement that hospitals “biometrically” confirm the identity of Medicaid patients.
Murphy said Thursday that something about the way this provision was written jumped out up at her immediately, especially since the rest of the bill focuses on welfare programs like food stamps.
Read more: jacksonville.com/news/florida/2016-02-06/story/language-issue-raises-red-flags-medicaid-fraud-bill
Rep. Dane Eagle is the sponsor of House Bill 1299, a measure intended to reduce public assistance fraud. But much of the discussion during a recent committee meeting focused on a provision that requires Florida hospitals to install software that allows them to use biometrics and the state driver license database to check patient identification.
“The question is, are they who they say they are?” Eagle, R-Cape Coral said.
When the bill came up for a vote last month in the House Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee, Rep. Amanda Murphy proposed an amendment that struck the requirement that hospitals “biometrically” confirm the identity of Medicaid patients.
Murphy said Thursday that something about the way this provision was written jumped out up at her immediately, especially since the rest of the bill focuses on welfare programs like food stamps.
Read more: jacksonville.com/news/florida/2016-02-06/story/language-issue-raises-red-flags-medicaid-fraud-bill