Florida Agency for Health Care Administration
Children’s Medical Services Health Plan · About this organization
What you get
A Medicaid health plan focused on serious or long-term health needs.
How to start
Call for clinical screening or ask your doctor to confirm your child’s health needs. After screening, choose CMS through Choice Counseling.
Good to know
- Current members move to Molina automatically on October 1, 2026; no new application is needed.
- Existing appointments, prescriptions and authorizations continue through the change.
The details, as published
The statewide CMS specialty managed-care plan serves Medicaid-eligible children and youth with serious or chronic special health-care needs who pass DOH clinical screening or physician attestation. Sunshine operates through September 30, 2026 and Molina begins October 1 with automatic transfer and continuity of existing appointments, prescriptions, and authorizations; pediatric malignancy is within the attestation range when functional limitation is also certified.
What help you may get
Medical And Insurance Costs
Children’s Medical Services Health Plan — medical and insurance costs
The statewide CMS specialty managed-care plan serves Medicaid-eligible children and youth with serious or chronic special health-care needs who pass DOH clinical screening or physician attestation. Sunshine operates through September 30, 2026 and Molina begins October 1 with automatic transfer and continuity of existing appointments, prescriptions, and authorizations; pediatric malignancy is within the attestation range when functional limitation is also certified.
Amount not published
Navigation Guides And Advocacy
Children’s Medical Services Health Plan — navigation guides and advocacy
The statewide CMS specialty managed-care plan serves Medicaid-eligible children and youth with serious or chronic special health-care needs who pass DOH clinical screening or physician attestation. Sunshine operates through September 30, 2026 and Molina begins October 1 with automatic transfer and continuity of existing appointments, prescriptions, and authorizations; pediatric malignancy is within the attestation range when functional limitation is also certified.
Amount not published
Travel And Transportation
Children’s Medical Services Health Plan — travel and transportation
The statewide CMS specialty managed-care plan serves Medicaid-eligible children and youth with serious or chronic special health-care needs who pass DOH clinical screening or physician attestation. Sunshine operates through September 30, 2026 and Molina begins October 1 with automatic transfer and continuity of existing appointments, prescriptions, and authorizations; pediatric malignancy is within the attestation range when functional limitation is also certified.
Amount not published
Why this may help
Medical And Insurance Costs: The specialty health plan arranges covered care for serious or chronic health needs.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. The official program scope includes U.S. children with cancer, which includes pediatric B-ALL when the stated eligibility rules are met.
Age
Age 0 to age 20, measured at application.
Treatment status
No specific treatment status is published.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
You must live in: FL.
Where your child is treated
No treatment-location restriction is published.
How to get started
Does a social worker or care team need to start it? No. A required care-team start is not published; the family can use the available route below.
- Call DOH clinical eligibility at 855-901-5390 or ask the physician about attestation.
- Current members transfer automatically to Molina on October 1, 2026.
Ways to apply or ask
- Automatic Distribution
- Hospital Workflow
- Web Form
Documents to prepare
The program does not publish a document checklist. Ask before gathering paperwork.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Not Published |
| Funding or space | Not Published |
| Application window | Rolling |
| Last checked | Aug 24, 2026 |
Limitations and things to confirm
No additional limitations are published.
- What exact birthday cutoff and Molina expanded benefits will apply after October 1?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Children’s Medical Services Health Plan · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Children’s Medical Services Health Plan · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Children’s Medical Services Health Plan · checked Aug 24, 2026