Senate Bill 0650

s0600-98
s0650

    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 650

    By Senator Clary





    7-330B-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to Medicaid; amending s.

  3         409.912, F.S.; allowing the Agency for Health

  4         Care Administration to provide certain types of

  5         services for the Healthy Start program;

  6         amending s. 383.011, F.S.; directing the agency

  7         to seek a federal waiver for the Healthy Start

  8         program; providing an effective date.

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10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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12         Section 1.  Present subsection (33) of section 409.912,

13  Florida Statutes, is redesignated as subsection (34), and a

14  new subsection (33) is added to that section to read:

15         409.912  Cost-effective purchasing of health care.--The

16  agency shall purchase goods and services for Medicaid

17  recipients in the most cost-effective manner consistent with

18  the delivery of quality medical care.  The agency shall

19  maximize the use of prepaid per capita and prepaid aggregate

20  fixed-sum basis services when appropriate and other

21  alternative service delivery and reimbursement methodologies,

22  including competitive bidding pursuant to s. 287.057, designed

23  to facilitate the cost-effective purchase of a case-managed

24  continuum of care. The agency shall also require providers to

25  minimize the exposure of recipients to the need for acute

26  inpatient, custodial, and other institutional care and the

27  inappropriate or unnecessary use of high-cost services.

28         (33)  The Agency for Health Care Administration may

29  provide for a continuum of risk-appropriate medical and

30  psychosocial services for the Healthy Start program if a

31  federal waiver permits such services to be provided.

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    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 650
    7-330B-98




  1         Section 2.  Subsection (3) is added to section 383.011,

  2  Florida Statutes, to read:

  3         383.011  Administration of maternal and child health

  4  programs.--

  5         (3)  The Agency for Health Care Administration, working

  6  jointly with the Department of Health and the Florida

  7  Association of Healthy Start Coalitions, is directed to seek a

  8  federal waiver to secure Title XIX matching funds for the

  9  Healthy Start program. The federal waiver application must

10  seek Medicaid matching funds utilizing appropriated general

11  revenue and local contributions. Healthy Start program

12  services are not to be considered an entitlement under this

13  waiver.

14         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1998.

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17                          SENATE SUMMARY

18    Allows the Agency for Health Care Administration to
      provide certain types of services for the Healthy Start
19    program. Directs the agency to request a federal waiver
      to secure Title XIX matching funds to expand the Healthy
20    Start program.

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