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11 Senator Silver moved the following amendment:
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13 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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17 Section 12. For the purpose of implementing Specific
18 Appropriation 260 of the 1999-2000 General Appropriations Act,
19 paragraph (c) of subsection (3) of section 409.912, Florida
20 Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to read:
21 409.912 Cost-effective purchasing of health care.--The
22 agency shall purchase goods and services for Medicaid
23 recipients in the most cost-effective manner consistent with
24 the delivery of quality medical care. The agency shall
25 maximize the use of prepaid per capita and prepaid aggregate
26 fixed-sum basis services when appropriate and other
27 alternative service delivery and reimbursement methodologies,
28 including competitive bidding pursuant to s. 287.057, designed
29 to facilitate the cost-effective purchase of a case-managed
30 continuum of care. The agency shall also require providers to
31 minimize the exposure of recipients to the need for acute
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1 inpatient, custodial, and other institutional care and the
2 inappropriate or unnecessary use of high-cost services.
3 (3) The agency may contract with:
4 (c)1. A federally qualified health center or an entity
5 owned by one or more federally qualified health centers or an
6 entity owned by other migrant and community health centers
7 receiving non-Medicaid financial support from the Federal
8 Government to provide health care services on a prepaid or
9 fixed-sum basis to recipients. Such prepaid health care
10 services entity must be licensed under parts I and III of
11 chapter 641 by January 1, 1998, but shall be prohibited from
12 serving Medicaid recipients on a prepaid basis, until such
13 licensure has been obtained. However, such an entity is
14 exempt from s. 641.225 if the entity meets the requirements
15 specified in subsections (14) and (15).
16 2. For the 1999-2000 fiscal year only, the licensure
17 requirements under parts I and III of chapter 641 shall not
18 apply to a federally qualified health center or an entity
19 owned by one or more federally qualified health centers or an
20 entity owned by other migrant and community health centers
21 receiving non-Medicaid financial support from the Federal
22 Government to provide health care services on a prepaid or
23 fix-sum basis to recipients. These entities are not prohibited
24 from serving Medicaid recipients on a prepaid basis. This
25 subparagraph expires July 1, 2000.
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31 And the title is amended as follows:
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4 amending s. 409.912, F.S.; providing standards
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