| 1 | Representative Farkas offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment to Amendment (964733) (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Between lines 435 and 436 insert: |
| 5 | Section 10. Section 430.701, Florida Statutes, is amended |
| 6 | to read: |
| 7 | 430.701 Legislative findings and intent.-- |
| 8 | (1) The Legislature finds that state expenditures for |
| 9 | long-term care services continue to increase at a rapid rate and |
| 10 | that Florida faces increasing pressure in its efforts to meet |
| 11 | the long-term care needs of the public. It is the intent of the |
| 12 | Legislature that the Department of Elderly Affairs, in |
| 13 | consultation with the Agency for Health Care Administration, |
| 14 | implement long-term care community diversion pilot projects to |
| 15 | test the effectiveness of managed care and outcome-based |
| 16 | reimbursement principles when applied to long-term care. |
| 17 | (2) The agency may seek federal approval in advance of its |
| 18 | formal waiver application to limit the diversion provider |
| 19 | network by freezing enrollment of providers at current levels |
| 20 | when an area already has three or more providers or, in an |
| 21 | expansion area, when enrollment reaches a level of three |
| 22 | providers. This subsection does not prevent the department from |
| 23 | approving a provider to expand service to additional counties |
| 24 | within a planning and service area for which the provider is |
| 25 | already approved to serve. |
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| 28 | Remove line 589 and insert: |
| 29 | assessment of exemption-request fees; amending s. 430.701, F.S.; |
| 30 | authorizing the agency to seek federal approval prior to seeking |
| 31 | a certain waiver relating to the long-term care diversion |
| 32 | provider network; amending s. 52, ch. |