Florida legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Florida S922: Coverage for Treatment of Stuttering
Status: Failed, March 13, 2026
Authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to pay for certain services and devices as a treatment for stuttering for Medicaid recipients; authorizing speech therapy in person and via telehealth as a treatment for stuttering; requiring certain individual health insurance policies, group health insurance policies, and health maintenance contracts, respectively, to provide coverage for specified services and devices as treatments for stuttering, etc.
What the bill says
An act relating to coverage for treatment of stuttering; amending s. 409.906, F.S.; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to pay for certain services and devices as a treatment for stuttering for Medicaid recipients; providing requirements for such coverages; authorizing speech therapy in person and via telehealth as a treatment for stuttering; authorizing the agency to include the use of certain communication technologies, applications, and platforms for such telehealth treatment; providing definitions…
From the introduced text, December 16, 2025:
A bill to be entitled An act relating to coverage for treatment of stuttering; amending s. 409.906, F.S.; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to pay for certain services and devices as a treatment for stuttering for Medicaid recipients; providing requirements for such coverages; authorizing speech therapy in person and via telehealth as a treatment for stuttering; authorizing the agency to include the use of certain communication technologies, applications, and platforms for such telehealth treatment; providing definitions; authorizing the agency to seek federal approval for a specified purpose; creating ss. 627.64192, 627.66912, and 641.3109, F.S.; providing definitions; requiring certain individual health insurance policies, group health insurance policies, and health maintenance contracts, respectively, to provide coverage for specified services and devices as treatments for stuttering; providing requirements for such coverages; authorizing speech therapy in person and via telehealth; providing requirements for telehealth coverage; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Subsection (30) is added to section 409.906, Florida Statutes, to read: 409.906 Optional Medicaid services.--Subject to specific appropriations, the agency may make payments for services which are optional to the state under Title XIX of the Social Security Act and are furnished by Medicaid providers to recipients who are determined to be eligible on the dates on which the services …