FL S1016

Prohibits health insurers, prepaid limited health service organizations, and health maintenance organizations from requiring dentists to provide services at insurer-set fees unless those services are covered benefits under the contract.

Defines covered services as those listed as benefits the insured is entitled to receive; prohibits organizations from providing merely de minimis reimbursement or coverage and requires fees for covered services be set in good faith and not be nominal.

Prohibits health insurers, prepaid limited health service organizations, and health maintenance organizations from requiring dentists to participate in discount medical plans as a condition of contract.

Allows health care providers licensed under chapter 466 to accept voluntary patient contributions to cover actual costs of dental laboratory work when providing services to low-income recipients as agents of governmental contractors, while maintaining sovereign immunity protection.

Amendments to insurance and HMO provisions apply to contracts entered into or renewed on or after July 1, 2013; act takes effect July 1, 2013.