The Florida Senate

Florida Health Insurance Affordability Exchange (FHIX)

The Senate's Florida Health Insurance Affordability Exchange (FHIX) is a fiscally responsible Florida solution to resolve short and long-term health care challenges facing our state. The FHIX Marketplace will offer private health coverage for 800,00 uninsured Floridians with an income less than 133 percent of the federal poverty level. This free-market, consumer-driven Florida solution provides access to high-quality, affordable health care coverage while promoting personal responsibility through premium payments and work or educational requirements. The plan includes conservative, free market guardrails that will control the cost and growth of the Medicaid program for Florida's taxpayers.

Legislative Progress

• MEMO: Proposed Amendment to FHIX - 5/26/2015
• MEMO: Letter from CMS Regarding LIP Funding - 5/21/2015
• Letter from CMS to AHCA (PDF) - 5/21/2015
• MEMO: Update on Governor Scott's Meeting with HHS Secretary Burwell (PDF) - 5/6/2015
• MEMO: Public Comment on Florida's Application to CMS to Amend MMA Waiver (PDF) - 4/27/2015
• MEMO: Workshop on Senate Plan for Medicaid Sustainability (PDF) - 4/17/2015
• MEMO: Information on Senate Plan for Medicaid Sustainability - 4/14/2015
• MEMO: Senate Plan for Medicaid Sustainability - 3/19/2015
• MEMO: Florida Health Insurance Affordability Exchange Program - 3/5/2015 date
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Press Releases

• Statement from Senate President Andy Gardiner Regarding the US Supreme Court Upholding Subsidies on the Federal Health Care Exchange - 06/25/2015
• Senator Bean Calls for the Creation of a Joint Legislative Task Force on Health Care Policy Innovation - 06/15/2015
• Statement from President Gardiner on the Florida Health Insurance Affordability Exchange Program - 06/05/2015
• Senate Releases FHIX Facts, Addresses Misconceptions Regarding Senate Bill 2-A - 06/04/2015
• Senate Releases More FHIX FACTS in Response to House Questions on Senate Bill 2-A - 06/04/2015
• Florida Senate Passes Compromise FHIX Plan With Enhanced Safeguards To Guarantee State Control - 06/03/2015
• Senate Passes the Florida Health Insurance Affordability Exchange with Health Outcome Review Commission - 06/03/2015
• Senate Appropriations Committee Passes FHIX, Adopts Strict Sunset Date to Protect Florida Taxpayers - 06/02/2015
• Senate Health Policy Committee Passes FHIX 2.0 - 06/01/2015
• President Gardiner Announces Compromise FHIX Plan to Expand Health Care Coverage - 5/26/2015
• Statement from President Gardiner Regarding AHCA's LIP Proposal - 5/26/2015
• Senate Republican Leaders Praise FHIX Compromise - 5/26/2015
• AHCA Submits Senate's LIP Model to Amend 1115 Medicaid Waiver (PDF) - 4/20/2015
• Governor Scott to Take Legal Action Against Obama for Stopping Federal Funds to Force State Further into Obamacare (PDF) - 4/16/2015
• Senate Passes Budget with Pro-Active Solutions to Florida's Health Care Challenges - 4/1/2015
• Statement by President Gardiner Regarding the Federal Government Suspending Negotiations on LIP - 4/1/2015
• Senate Budget Offers Innovative Health Care Solutions, Unprecedented Investment In Education - 3/20/2015
• Florida Health Insurance Affordability Exchange Passes Senate HHS Appropriations - 3/17/2015 date
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Related Documents

• 2015 LIP Model Information (PDF)
• FHIX 2.0 Comparison (PDF)
• Workshop on Senate Plan for Medicaid Sustainability Packet (PDF)
• Problem and Solution Matrix (PDF)
• History of LIP and IGT Funding (PDF)
• LIP and Intergovernmental Transfers (IGTs) Key Facts (PDF)
• Parameters for LIP and IGTs (PDF)
• Florida Health Insurance Affordability Exchange (FHIX) Program – Workshop Handout (PDF)
• Federal Requirements for 1115 Waiver Application (PDF)
• Study of Hospital Funding and Payment Methodologies for Florida Medicaid (PDF)
• Economic Impact Analysis – LIP, IGTs and SB 2512 (PDF)
• Letter from AHCA to CMS (PDF) - 4/15/2015
• Letter from CMS to AHCA (PDF) - 4/14/2015
• Letter from Governor Scott to President Obama (PDF) - 3/4/2015
• Letter from CMS to AHCA – LIP Approval Letter (PDF) - 7/31/2014
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Senate Perspectives—Opinion Editorials from Florida Senators on FHIX and LIP

• President Andy Gardiner: The Florida Senate's Medicaid expansion plan works for Florida (PDF) - 5/29/2015
• Senator Bill Galvano: The Florida Senate's health care fix - 5/24/2015
• President Andy Gardiner: Senate plan offers Florida solution to health needs (PDF) - 5/22/2015
• Senator David Simmons: Senate Medicaid proposal: Extinction, not expansion (PDF) - 5/10/2015
• Senator Bill Galvano: Innovative health care plans generate economic impact - 5/3/2015
• Senator Richter says it's our money and we deserve a return - 4/14/2015

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