HOUSE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 782, 1st Eng.
Amendment No. ___ (for drafter's use only)
CHAMBER ACTION
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11 Representative(s) Fasano offered the following:
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13 Amendment to Amendment (600753) (with title amendment)
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18 Section 7. Paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section
19 395.701, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
20 395.701 Annual assessments on net operating revenues
21 for inpatient and outpatient services to fund public medical
22 assistance; administrative fines for failure to pay
23 assessments when due; exemption.--
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25 (b) There is imposed upon each hospital an assessment
26 in an amount equal to 0.5 1 percent of the annual net
27 operating revenue for outpatient services for each hospital,
28 such revenue to be determined by the agency, based on the
29 actual experience of the hospital as reported to the agency.
30 While prior year report worksheets may be reconciled to the
31 hospital's audited financial statements, no additional audited
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HOUSE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 782, 1st Eng.
Amendment No. ___ (for drafter's use only)
1 financial components may be required for the purposes of
2 determining the amount of the assessment imposed pursuant to
3 this section other than those in effect on July 1, 2000.
4 Within 6 months after the end of each hospital fiscal year,
5 the agency shall certify the amount of the assessment for each
6 hospital. The assessment shall be payable to and collected by
7 the agency in equal quarterly amounts, on or before the first
8 day of each calendar quarter, beginning with the first full
9 calendar quarter that occurs after the agency certifies the
10 amount of the assessment for each hospital. All moneys
11 collected pursuant to this subsection shall be deposited into
12 the Public Medical Assistance Trust Fund.
13 Section 8. Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section
14 395.7015, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
15 395.7015 Annual assessment on health care entities.--
16 (2) There is imposed an annual assessment against
17 certain health care entities as described in this section:
18 (a) The assessment shall be equal to 0.5 1 percent of
19 the annual net operating revenues of health care entities. The
20 assessment shall be payable to and collected by the agency.
21 Assessments shall be based on annual net operating revenues
22 for the entity's most recently completed fiscal year as
23 provided in subsection (3).
24 Section 9. Section 395.7016, Florida Statutes, is
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26 395.7016 Annual appropriation.--The Legislature shall
27 appropriate each fiscal year from either the General Revenue
28 Fund or the Agency for Health Care Administration Tobacco
29 Settlement Trust Fund an amount sufficient to replace the
30 funds lost due to reduction by chapter 2000-256, Laws of
31 Florida, and by chapter 2001- , Laws of Florida, (this act)
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1 of the assessment on other health care entities under s.
2 395.7015, and the reduction by chapter 2000-256, Laws of
3 Florida, and by chapter 2001- , Laws of Florida, (this act)
4 in the assessment on hospitals under s. 395.701, and to
5 maintain federal approval of the reduced amount of funds
6 deposited into the Public Medical Assistance Trust Fund under
7 s. 395.701, as state match for the state's Medicaid program.
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11 And the title is amended as follows:
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16 Risk Management Advisory Council; amending s.
17 395.701, F.S.; reducing the annual assessment
18 on hospital outpatient services to fund public
19 medical assistance; limiting the financial
20 information that may be required to determine
21 the amount of the assessment; amending s.
22 395.7015, F.S.; reducing the annual assessment
23 on certain other health care entities to fund
24 public medical assistance; amending s.
25 395.7016, F.S.; providing for annual
26 appropriations to replace funds lost due to
27 such reductions;
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