Senate Bill sb1520c1

    Florida Senate - 2001                           CS for SB 1520

    By the Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care; and
    Senator Constantine




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  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 Senate - 2001                           CS for SB 1520
    317-1645-01




  1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  2                         Senate Bill 1520

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  4  The Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 1520 removes from the
    bill requirements that the Department of Elderly Affairs and
  5  the Department of Children and Family Services develop
    expedited approval of providers of environmental modification
  6  services under the Assisted Living for the Elderly Medicaid
    waiver and the developmental services waiver, replacing this
  7  requirement with a requirement that Medicaid enroll any
    general, building, or residential contractor licensed under
  8  ch. 489, F.S., as a provider of environmental modification
    services for any Medicaid home and community-based services
  9  waiver; and defines "environmental modification services" and
    "environmental accessibility adaptations".
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