A participant in a group insurance plan offered by a county, municipality, school board, local governmental unit, and special taxing unit, who discovers that he or she was overcharged by a hospital, physician, clinical lab, and other health care providers, shall receive a refund of 50 percent of any amount recovered as a result of such overcharge, up to a maximum of $1,000 per admission. All such instances of overcharge shall be reported to the Agency for Health Care Administration for action it deems appropriate.
Fla. Stat. § 112.153
Local governmental group insurance plans; refunds with respect to overcharges by providers
Known as the Whistle-blower’s Act
The act spans §§ 112–112 (164 sections).
History.--s. 4, ch. 83-292; s. 1, ch. 91-48; s. 689, ch. 95-147; s. 9, ch. 97-95.
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