Florida Senate - 2011 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for SB 1972 Barcode 579138 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House Comm: RCS . 04/06/2011 . . . . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The Committee on Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services Appropriations (Oelrich) recommended the following: 1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 2 3 Between lines 3961 and 3962 4 insert: 5 (4) The agency shall develop a methodology and request a 6 state plan amendment or waiver that ensures the availability of 7 certified public expenditures in the Medicaid managed care 8 program to support noninstitutional teaching faculty providers 9 that have historically served Medicaid recipients. Such 10 providers include allopathic and osteopathic physicians employed 11 by or under contract with a medical school in this state. The 12 agency shall directly make supplemental payments to teaching 13 faculty providers or to a statewide entity acting on behalf of 14 state medical schools and teaching faculty providers that 15 contract with qualified plans and provide care to Medicaid 16 recipients in recognition of the costs associated with graduate 17 medical education and training, educating medical school 18 students, and access to primary and specialty care provided to 19 Medicaid recipients. Physicians employed by or under contract 20 with a medical school in this state are eligible for a 21 supplemental payment only if there are sufficient certified 22 public expenditures available from allowable sources. The agency 23 shall evaluate the development of teaching faculty provider 24 payments for managed care to accurately reflect the historical 25 and underlying as well as current and prospective utilization to 26 the maximum extent possible. Any such methodology must preserve 27 federal funding to these entities. 28 29 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 30 And the title is amended as follows: 31 Delete line 206 32 and insert: 33 certain time; requiring the agency to develop a 34 methodology and request a state plan amendment to 35 ensure the availability of certified public 36 expenditures in the Medicaid managed care program to 37 support certain noninstitutional teaching faculty 38 providers; creating s. 409.969, F.S.; authorizing