Senate Bill 2118

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    Florida Senate - 1999                                  SB 2118

    By Senator Dawson-White





    30-1282-99

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to health care; amending s.

  3         409.9122, F.S.; requiring the Agency for Health

  4         Care Administration, without preauthorization,

  5         to provide recipients enrolled in managed care

  6         plans or with MediPass providers with direct

  7         access and reimbursement for services for

  8         diagnosis and evaluation services provided by

  9         child protection teams; amending s. 641.31,

10         F.S.; providing that a health maintenance

11         contract that provides services to a minor

12         child of a subscriber may not require any

13         preauthorization for services rendered by child

14         protection teams; providing an effective date.

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

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18         Section 1.  Subsection (13) is added to section

19  409.9122, Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, to read:

20         409.9122  Mandatory Medicaid managed care enrollment;

21  programs and procedures.--

22         (13)  The agency shall provide recipients enrolled in

23  managed care plans or with MediPass providers direct access

24  and reimbursement for services for diagnosis and evaluation

25  services provided by child protection teams, established under

26  s. 39.303, without preauthorization related to alleged child

27  abuse, abandonment, or neglect as defined by policy or rule of

28  the Department of Health.

29         Section 2.  Subsection (36) is added to section 641.31,

30  Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, to read:

31         641.31  Health maintenance contracts.--

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  1         (36)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this

  2  section, a health maintenance contract that provides services

  3  to a minor child of a subscriber must not require any

  4  preauthorization for services rendered by child protection

  5  teams, established under s. 39.303, for diagnosis and

  6  evaluation services related to alleged child abuse,

  7  abandonment, or neglect, as defined by policy or rule of the

  8  Department of Health.

  9         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1999.

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12                          SENATE SUMMARY

13    Requires the Agency for Health Care Administration,
      without preauthorization, to provide recipients enrolled
14    in managed care plans or with MediPass providers with
      direct access and reimbursement for services for
15    diagnosis and evaluation services provided by child
      protection teams. Provides that a health maintenance
16    contract that provides services to a minor child of a
      subscriber may not require any preauthorization for
17    services rendered by child protection teams.

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