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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 484

    Amendment No.    

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11  Senator Gutman moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 12, lines 25-30, delete those lines

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17         (f)  When a Medicaid recipient does not choose a

18  managed care plan or MediPass provider, the agency shall

19  assign the Medicaid recipient to a managed care plan or

20  MediPass provider. Medicaid recipients who are subject to

21  mandatory assignment but who fail to make a choice shall be

22  assigned to managed care plans until an equal enrollment of 50

23  percent in MediPass and 50 percent in managed care plans is

24  achieved.  Once equal enrollment is achieved, the assignments

25  shall be divided in order to maintain an equal enrollment in

26  MediPass and managed care plans for the 1998-99 fiscal year.

27  In the first period that assignment begins, the assignments

28  shall be divided equally between the MediPass program and

29  managed care plans. Thereafter,

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 484

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 2  And the title is amended as follows:

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