SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 2220

    Amendment No.    

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11  Senator Webster moved the following amendment to amendment

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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

15         On page 276, between lines 26 and 27,

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18         Section 201.  Subsection (36) is added to section

19  409.912, Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, to read:

20         409.912  Cost-effective purchasing of health care.--The

21  agency shall purchase goods and services for Medicaid

22  recipients in the most cost-effective manner consistent with

23  the delivery of quality medical care.  The agency shall

24  maximize the use of prepaid per capita and prepaid aggregate

25  fixed-sum basis services when appropriate and other

26  alternative service delivery and reimbursement methodologies,

27  including competitive bidding pursuant to s. 287.057, designed

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

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

30  minimize the exposure of recipients to the need for acute

31  inpatient, custodial, and other institutional care and the

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 2220

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 1  inappropriate or unnecessary use of high-cost services.

 2         (36)  The agency shall enter into agreements with

 3  not-for-profit organizations based in this state for the

 4  purpose of providing vision screening.

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10  And the title is amended as follows:

11         On page 296, line 29, after the semicolon,

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

15         for Health Care Administration to enter into

16         agreements with certain organizations for

17         purposes of providing vision screening;

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