Florida Healthy Kids

The Florida Healthy Kids Corporation was established in 1990 by the Florida Legislature as a public-private initiative to improve access to comprehensive health insurance for the state's uninsured children. The Corporation helps thousands of uninsured children gain access to affordable, quality health care. Healthy Kids acts as a quasi-single payer financing mechanism by aggregating local, state, federal and family funds to pay premiums to commercial health plans who assume the insurance risk. This program is unique because it is designed to provide affordable access to health insurance coverage for working families for whom the payment of the full premium would be out of reach.

Participation by school districts, health plans and other entities in this initiative is voluntary and a key factor in the program's success. With operational sites statewide, Florida Healthy Kids is poised to make quality health care available to uninsured kids in the State of Florida. The broad coverage of the benefit structure, from immunizations to transplants to dental services, seeks to ensure that children in the State of Florida are able to enjoy the continuity of care that is essential to their health, well being and development.

The Florida Healthy Kids Corporation arranges health care coverage for Florida's uninsured children. They develop and implement solutions, making quality a priority at every step in the process. They strive to instill a sense of security among the families of those they serve.

The Corporation now has operating sites in all sixty-seven counties. Since program inception more than half a million children have been covered through Healthy Kids, and more than 300,000 presently continue to enjoy benefits from immunizations to transplants.