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Florida House of Representatives - 2001 HB 55
By Representative Fasano
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to public medical assistance;
3 amending s. 395.701, F.S.; reducing the annual
4 assessment on hospital outpatient services to
5 fund public medical assistance; amending s.
6 395.7015, F.S.; reducing the annual assessment
7 on certain other health care entities to fund
8 public medical assistance; providing for annual
9 appropriations to replace funds lost due to
10 such reductions; providing an appropriation;
11 providing a contingent effective date.
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13 WHEREAS, the Legislature finds that the provision of
14 indigent care is a broad societal responsibility not to be
15 placed solely on those who provide or receive health care, and
16 WHEREAS, the Legislature finds that the current
17 economic conditions for health care entities are different
18 than when the assessment on hospitals was instituted in 1984
19 and the assessment on other health care entities was
20 instituted in 1991, and
21 WHEREAS, because these assessments place a great burden
22 on hospitals and other health care entities, it is the intent
23 of the Legislature by this act to provide relief to hospitals
24 and other health care entities, NOW, THEREFORE,
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26 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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28 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section
29 395.701, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
30 395.701 Annual assessments on net operating revenues
31 for inpatient and outpatient services to fund public medical
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1 assistance; administrative fines for failure to pay
2 assessments when due; exemption.--
3 (2)
4 (b) There is imposed upon each hospital an assessment
5 in an amount equal to 0.5 1 percent of the annual net
6 operating revenue for outpatient services for each hospital,
7 such revenue to be determined by the agency, based on the
8 actual experience of the hospital as reported to the agency.
9 Within 6 months after the end of each hospital fiscal year,
10 the agency shall certify the amount of the assessment for each
11 hospital. The assessment shall be payable to and collected by
12 the agency in equal quarterly amounts, on or before the first
13 day of each calendar quarter, beginning with the first full
14 calendar quarter that occurs after the agency certifies the
15 amount of the assessment for each hospital. All moneys
16 collected pursuant to this subsection shall be deposited into
17 the Public Medical Assistance Trust Fund.
18 Section 2. Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section
19 395.7015, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
20 395.7015 Annual assessment on health care entities.--
21 (2) There is imposed an annual assessment against
22 certain health care entities as described in this section:
23 (a) The assessment shall be equal to 0.5 1 percent of
24 the annual net operating revenues of health care entities. The
25 assessment shall be payable to and collected by the agency.
26 Assessments shall be based on annual net operating revenues
27 for the entity's most recently completed fiscal year as
28 provided in subsection (3).
29 Section 3. The Legislature shall appropriate each
30 fiscal year from either the General Revenue Fund or the Agency
31 for Health Care Administration Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund
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1 an amount sufficient to replace the funds lost due to the
2 reduction by this act in the assessment on hospitals under s.
3 395.701, Florida Statutes, and the reduction by this act of
4 the assessment on other health care entities under s.
5 395.7015, Florida Statutes, and to maintain federal approval
6 of the reduced amount of funds deposited into the Public
7 Medical Assistance Trust Fund under s. 395.701, Florida
8 Statutes, as state match for the state's Medicaid program.
9 Section 4. There is appropriated the sum of $_____
10 million from the General Revenue Fund to the Agency for Health
11 Care Administration to implement the provisions of this act
12 relating to the Public Medical Assistance Trust Fund; however,
13 no portion of this appropriation that duplicates a similar
14 appropriation for the same purpose contained in other
15 legislation for the 2001 Regular Session that becomes law
16 shall be effective.
17 Section 5. This act shall take effect only upon the
18 Agency for Health Care Administration receiving written
19 confirmation from the federal Health Care Financing
20 Administration that the amendments contained in this act will
21 not adversely affect the use of the remaining assessments as
22 state match for the state's Medicaid program.
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25 HOUSE SUMMARY
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Reduces the annual assessments on hospital outpatient
27 services and certain other health care entities to fund
public medical assistance, and provides for annual
28 appropriations to replace the funds lost due to such
reductions. Takes effect contingent on receipt of certain
29 written confirmation from the federal Health Care
Financing Administration.
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