HOUSE AMENDMENT

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    Amendment No.     (for drafter's use only)

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11  Representative(s) Fuller offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 56, between lines 20 & 21, of the bill

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17         Section 34.  Subsection (36) is added to section

18  409.912, Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, to read:

19         409.912  Cost-effective purchasing of health care.--The

20  agency shall purchase goods and services for Medicaid

21  recipients in the most cost-effective manner consistent with

22  the delivery of quality medical care.  The agency shall

23  maximize the use of prepaid per capita and prepaid aggregate

24  fixed-sum basis services when appropriate and other

25  alternative service delivery and reimbursement methodologies,

26  including competitive bidding pursuant to s. 287.057, designed

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

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

29  minimize the exposure of recipients to the need for acute

30  inpatient, custodial, and other institutional care and the

31  inappropriate or unnecessary use of high-cost services.

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

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 1         (36)  The agency shall enter into agreements with

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10  after "Hospital;" insert:

11         amending s. 409.912, F.S.; requiring the Agency

12         for Health Care Administration to enter into

13         certain agreements;

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