AHCA: Florida Long-Term Care Insurance Partnership Program

About the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA)

Our Agency was statutorily created by Chapter 20, Florida Statutes as the chief health policy and planning entity for the state. We are primarily responsible for the state's $16 billion Medicaid program that serves over 2.2 million Floridians, the licensure of the state's 36,000 health care facilities and the sharing of health care data through the Florida Center for Health Information and Policy Analysis.

Last year we worked with legislators to tackle the problem of Florida's uninsured and appreciate your support for initiatives like Cover Florida. Cover Florida plans will be offered beginning January 1, 2009, and we hope they will make a difference for the state's 3.6 million uninsured. We also worked with you to target fraud in home health agencies, to make available price and outcome information on 150 different procedures, and to stretch our budget resources to serve as many people as possible.

This year we will be working with you to continue to reduce the number of uninsured across the state, to enhance our ability to target fraudulent providers, to reduce unnecessary regulation, to reduce administrative costs in order to ensure that dollars go to serve patients and more.

Our mission is Better Health Care for All Floridians.

Contact the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA)

Agency for Health Care Administration
2727 Mahan Drive
Tallahassee, FL 32308
(888) 419-3456
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AGENCY DEPARTMENTS: For contact information for particular bureaus or departments click Inside AHCA or call the toll-free number (888) 419-3456. After choosing English, Spanish, or Creole then press 3.

AREA OFFICES: The Agency has offices throughout Florida. The Area Medicaid Offices can help with Medicaid questions (for beneficiaries and providers) and has a list of Medicaid providers. The Health Quality Assurance Offices conduct surveys of health care facilities/providers and help facilities/providers with quality assurance. To find an office near you click Regional Maps.

COMPLAINTS: To file a complaint against a health care facility or health maintenance organization (HMO) regulated by AHCA: Call the toll-free number (888) 419-3456. To file a complaint against a health care facility online, click here. To read more about the complaint process click here.

MEDICAID: The Area Medicaid Offices can help with Medicaid questions and has a list of Medicaid providers. To find Area Medicaid Offices and other Medicaid information click www.MyMedicaid-Florida.com. To report Medicaid fraud or abuse, call the toll-free number (888) 419-3456. After choosing English, Spanish, or Creole then press 5.

PUBLICATIONS & FORMS: Click Publications to view and download AHCA publications and Forms. Some of these can be ordered by calling the toll-free number (888) 419-3456. After choosing English, Spanish, or Creole then press 4.

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Florida Long-Term Care Partnership Program:
A Public-Private Partnership for Long-Term Care Insurance Coverage

Florida’s Long-Term Care Partnership Program is a partnership program between Medicaid and private long-term care insurers designed to encourage individuals to purchase private long-term care insurance. Long-Term Care Partnership policies are tax qualified (a portion of premiums paid may be claimed as a tax deduction) under federal law; provide policyholders with inflation protection; and most importantly, provide dollar-for-dollar asset protection in the event the policyholder needs to apply for long-term care Medicaid assistance. For every dollar that a partnership policy pays out in benefits, a dollar of assets can be protected from Medicaid spend-down requirements.

Legislation

The authorizing language for the establishment of the Florida Long-Term Care Partnership (LTCP) Program by the Agency for Health Care Administration, in consultation with the Office of Insurance Regulation and the Department of Children and Family Services, is located in s. 409.9102, Florida Statutes, and Rule Chapter 69O-157.201 of the Florida Administrative Code.
This language may be accessed on the official website of the Florida Legislature, Online Sunshine.

Florida Long-Term Care Partnership (LTCP) Program Authorizing Language, s. 409.9102, Florida Statutes, and Rule Chapter 69O-157.201 of the Florida Administrative Code

The Florida Administrative Code regarding Long-Term Care Insurance

Office of Program Policy Analysis & Government Accountability (OPPAGA) Report No. 09-08
Increased Public Awareness of the Long-Term Care Insurance Partnership Would Contribute to the Program’s Success

Disclaimer: References to products, services or other companies does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by the State of Florida Agency for Health Care Administration. Purchase of a partnership policy does not guarantee eligibility for Medicaid.

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