House Bill hb1415

    Florida House of Representatives - 2001                HB 1415

        By Representative Kallinger






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to Medicaid environmental

  3         modification services; creating s. 409.9072,

  4         F.S.; providing for Medicaid enrollment of

  5         licensed general, building, and residential

  6         contractors as providers of environmental

  7         modification services for Medicaid recipients

  8         under any home and community-based services

  9         waiver program; providing a definition;

10         providing an effective date.

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

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14         Section 1.  Section 409.9072, Florida Statutes, is

15  created to read:

16         409.9072  Medicaid provider agreement for environmental

17  modification services.--Notwithstanding any other provision of

18  law, Medicaid shall enroll any general, building, or

19  residential contractor who is licensed pursuant to chapter

20  489, as a provider of environmental modification services for

21  any Medicaid home and community-based services waiver program,

22  after such contractor signs the required Medicaid provider

23  agreement. For purposes of this section, "environmental

24  modification services," also known as "environmental

25  accessibility adaptations," means those physical adaptations

26  to the home required by a Medicaid recipient's plan of care

27  that are necessary to ensure the health, safety, and welfare

28  of the recipient or to enable such person to function with

29  greater independence and prevent his or her

30  institutionalization.

31         Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1, 2001.

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2001                HB 1415

    774-100A-01






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      Provides for Medicaid enrollment of general, building,
  4    and residential contractors licensed pursuant to ch. 489,
      F.S., as providers of environmental modification services
  5    for Medicaid recipients under any home and
      community-based services waiver program. Defines
  6    "environmental modification services."

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