Senate Bill sb0694c1

    Florida Senate - 2003                            CS for SB 694

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




    317-1907-03

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to social and economic

  3         assistance; amending s. 409.904, F.S.;

  4         authorizing the Agency for Health Care

  5         Administration to make medical assistance

  6         available to certain persons who are

  7         hospitalized in state-designated trauma

  8         centers; providing an effective date.

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

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12         Section 1.  Subsection (11) is added to section

13  409.904, Florida Statutes, to read:

14         409.904  Optional payments for eligible persons.--The

15  agency may make payments for medical assistance and related

16  services on behalf of the following persons who are determined

17  to be eligible subject to the income, assets, and categorical

18  eligibility tests set forth in federal and state law.  Payment

19  on behalf of these Medicaid eligible persons is subject to the

20  availability of moneys and any limitations established by the

21  General Appropriations Act or chapter 216.

22         (11)  A person under age 65 who is hospitalized in a

23  state-approved trauma center for multiple significant trauma,

24  DRGs 484-487, and whose family income, after deductions for

25  uninsured medical expenses, is at or below 200 percent of the

26  federal poverty level.

27         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.

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    Florida Senate - 2003                            CS for SB 694
    317-1907-03




 1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
 2                         Senate Bill 694

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 4  The Bill provides for Medicaid to cover persons under age 65
    who are hospitalized in a state-approved rather than
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    diagnosis related groups, and who meet other specified
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