Florida Senate - 2013                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 966
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Sobel moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 650 - 666
    4  and insert:
    5  must be updated at least annually.
    6         (3) The department shall include in contracts with managing
    7  entities and mental health services providers provisions that
    8  require the provider to assign a case manager; provide emergency
    9  psychiatric care; establish a detailed protocol for the
   10  supervision of the clinical needs of the residents; provide
   11  services during evenings, weekends, and holidays; prepare a
   12  community living support plan; execute a cooperative agreement
   13  before providing services; and implement the requirements of
   14  this section for state-funded residents who reside in an
   15  assisted living facility that holds a limited mental health
   16  license. The department shall establish performance measures for
   17  mental health services provided to state-funded residents of
   18  assisted living facilities and report performance on an annual
   19  basis pursuant to s. 216.013. The department shall adopt rules
   20  relating to procedures and penalties to administer this section.
   21         (4) The Agency for Health Care Administration shall include
   22  in contracts with Medicaid reform plans, prepaid mental health
   23  plans, and managed care contract providers a requirement that
   24  residents have an assigned case manager; have services during
   25  evenings, weekends, and holidays; have emergency psychiatric
   26  care when needed; and have a detailed protocol that explains how
   27  the provider will ensure appropriate supervision of the clinical
   28  needs of Medicaid-eligible individuals who reside in an assisted
   29  living facility that holds a limited mental health license. The
   30  agency shall require Medicaid managed care plans and prepaid
   31  mental health plans to establish performance measures for mental
   32  health services provided to state-funded residents of assisted
   33  living facilities and to report performance on an annual basis
   34  to the agency. The agency shall adopt rules relating to
   35  procedures and penalties to administer this section.
   36         (5) The department shall enter into an interagency
   37  agreement with the Agency for Health Care Administration which
   38  delineates their respective responsibilities and procedures for
   39  enforcing the requirements of this section relating to
   40  regulatory oversight of the needs of mental health residents who
   41  reside in assisted living facilities and contracted mental
   42  health providers.
   43         (6)(3) The Secretary of Children and Family Services, in
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   45  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   46         And the title is amended as follows:
   47         Delete lines 32 - 48
   48  and insert:
   49         mental health resident’s admission; requiring the
   50         Department of Children and Families to include
   51         specific provisions relating to the protection of
   52         residents in contracts with managing entities and
   53         mental health services providers; requiring the
   54         department to establish and report performance
   55         measures for mental health services provided to state
   56         funded residents in assisted living facilities;
   57         requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to
   58         include specific provisions relating to the protection
   59         of residents in contracts with certain Medicaid plans,
   60         mental health plans, and managed care contract
   61         providers; requiring the department and the agency to
   62         enter into an interagency agreement relating to their
   63         respective responsibilities and procedures to enforce
   64         provisions relating to mental health residents in
   65         regulated facilities; amending s. 394.741, F.S.;
   66         revising