The Florida Senate

409.9061  Statewide laboratory services contract authorized.--The Agency for Health Care Administration may contract on a capitated, prepaid, or fixed-sum basis with a laboratory service provider to provide statewide laboratory services for Medicaid recipients. The contract is not subject to any requirement of the Florida Insurance Code. Whether or not the agency procures statewide laboratory services, the agency shall ensure that it secures laboratory values from Medicaid-enrolled laboratories for all tests provided to Medicaid recipients. Such data shall be included in the Medicaid real-time web-based reporting system that interfaces with a real-time web-based prescription ordering and tracking system as required by the 2003-2004 General Appropriations Act.

History.--s. 24, ch. 2004-270.