Bill > H0785

This bill requires Medicaid, individual health insurance policies, group health insurance policies, and health maintenance contracts to provide comprehensive coverage for stuttering treatment, including both habilitative and rehabilitative services and devices. The bill defines habilitative services as help learning, maintaining, or improving skills for daily living, and rehabilitative services as restorative treatments that maintain or potentially improve a person's current functioning. Specifically, the bill mandates that these healthcare providers must cover speech therapy services both in-person and via telehealth, with no limits on the number of visits, type of medical condition causing the stuttering, or additional authorization requirements. The telehealth services must use communication technologies that comply with HIPAA privacy provisions. The coverage applies to developmental and non-developmental stuttering and includes speech therapy and assistive technology devices. The bill aims to ensure that individuals who stutter have access to consistent, unrestricted treatment options across different types of healthcare plans, with an effective date of July 1, 2026.

Health and Social Services

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/785