SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 2220

    Amendment No.    

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11  Senator Webster moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 69, between lines 9 and 10,

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17         Section 56.  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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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 2220

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 1         (36)  The agency shall enter into agreements with

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

 3  purpose of providing vision screening.

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 5  (Redesignate subsequent sections.)

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 9  And the title is amended as follows:

10         On page 5, line 14, after the semicolon,

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

14         for Health Care Administration to enter into

15         agreements with certain organizations for

16         purposes of providing vision screening;

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