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    By the Committee on Health Care; and Senator Wise





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  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to mental health services

  3         providers; amending s. 409.912, F.S.; providing

  4         requirements for the provision of mental health

  5         services to residents of an assisted living

  6         facility having a limited mental health

  7         license; requiring the Agency for Health Care

  8         Administration to establish a workgroup to

  9         examine strategies and make recommendations

10         prior to implementation of any managed care

11         plan that would include behavioral health care

12         services in specified counties; providing for

13         membership; creating the Best Practices and

14         Limited Mental Health Assisted Living

15         Facilities workgroup; providing duties and

16         responsibilities; providing for membership;

17         authorizing the workgroup to request assistance

18         from the Florida Mental Health Institute;

19         requiring the workgroup to prepare and file a

20         report with the Governor and the Legislature by

21         a specified date; providing an effective date.

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

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25         Section 1.  Subsection (6) of section 409.912, Florida

26  Statutes, is amended to read:

27         409.912  Cost-effective purchasing of health care.--The

28  agency shall purchase goods and services for Medicaid

29  recipients in the most cost-effective manner consistent with

30  the delivery of quality medical care. To ensure that medical

31  services are effectively utilized, the agency may, in any

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 1  case, require a confirmation or second physician's opinion of

 2  the correct diagnosis for purposes of authorizing future

 3  services under the Medicaid program. This section does not

 4  restrict access to emergency services or poststabilization

 5  care services as defined in 42 C.F.R. part 438.114. Such

 6  confirmation or second opinion shall be rendered in a manner

 7  approved by the agency. The agency shall maximize the use of

 8  prepaid per capita and prepaid aggregate fixed-sum basis

 9  services when appropriate and other alternative service

10  delivery and reimbursement methodologies, including

11  competitive bidding pursuant to s. 287.057, designed to

12  facilitate the cost-effective purchase of a case-managed

13  continuum of care. The agency shall also require providers to

14  minimize the exposure of recipients to the need for acute

15  inpatient, custodial, and other institutional care and the

16  inappropriate or unnecessary use of high-cost services. The

17  agency may mandate prior authorization, drug therapy

18  management, or disease management participation for certain

19  populations of Medicaid beneficiaries, certain drug classes,

20  or particular drugs to prevent fraud, abuse, overuse, and

21  possible dangerous drug interactions. The Pharmaceutical and

22  Therapeutics Committee shall make recommendations to the

23  agency on drugs for which prior authorization is required. The

24  agency shall inform the Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics

25  Committee of its decisions regarding drugs subject to prior

26  authorization. The agency is authorized to limit the entities

27  it contracts with or enrolls as Medicaid providers by

28  developing a provider network through provider credentialing.

29  The agency may limit its network based on the assessment of

30  beneficiary access to care, provider availability, provider

31  quality standards, time and distance standards for access to

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 1  care, the cultural competence of the provider network,

 2  demographic characteristics of Medicaid beneficiaries,

 3  practice and provider-to-beneficiary standards, appointment

 4  wait times, beneficiary use of services, provider turnover,

 5  provider profiling, provider licensure history, previous

 6  program integrity investigations and findings, peer review,

 7  provider Medicaid policy and billing compliance records,

 8  clinical and medical record audits, and other factors.

 9  Providers shall not be entitled to enrollment in the Medicaid

10  provider network. The agency is authorized to seek federal

11  waivers necessary to implement this policy.

12         (6)  The agency may contract with any public or private

13  entity otherwise authorized by this section on a prepaid or

14  fixed-sum basis for the provision of health care services to

15  recipients. An entity may provide prepaid services to

16  recipients, either directly or through arrangements with other

17  entities, if each entity involved in providing services:

18         (a)  Is organized primarily for the purpose of

19  providing health care or other services of the type regularly

20  offered to Medicaid recipients;

21         (b)  Ensures that services meet the standards set by

22  the agency for quality, appropriateness, and timeliness;

23         (c)  Ensures that each resident who lives in a licensed

24  assisted living facility that holds a limited mental health

25  license receives access to an adequate and appropriate array

26  of state-funded mental health services within funds available;

27         (d)  Ensures that state-funded mental health services

28  promote recovery by implementing best practices through

29  cooperative agreements between mental health providers and

30  assisted living facilities that hold a limited mental health

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 1  license, by implementing the community living support plans,

 2  and by complying with s. 394.4574;

 3         (e)  Ensures that a resident of an assisted living

 4  facility may not be displaced as a result of the

 5  implementation of any behavioral health care managed care

 6  plan;

 7         (f)  In order to provide state-funded mental health

 8  services to a resident of an assisted living facility that

 9  holds a limited mental health license:

10         1.  Develops and implements a plan that complies with

11  s. 394.4574 for providing state-funded mental health services;

12         2.  Ensures that each resident of an assisted living

13  facility that holds a limited mental health license has access

14  to therapeutic medications, including atypical psychotropic

15  medications, as directed by the resident's doctor, within

16  available resources; and

17         3.  Ensures that each resident of an assisted living

18  facility that holds a limited mental health license has access

19  to state-funded primary care and mental health services

20  covered by the Medicaid program;

21         (g)(c)  Makes provisions satisfactory to the agency for

22  insolvency protection and ensures that neither enrolled

23  Medicaid recipients nor the agency will be liable for the

24  debts of the entity;

25         (h)(d)  Submits to the agency, if a private entity, a

26  financial plan that the agency finds to be fiscally sound and

27  that provides for working capital in the form of cash or

28  equivalent liquid assets excluding revenues from Medicaid

29  premium payments equal to at least the first 3 months of

30  operating expenses or $200,000, whichever is greater;

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 1         (i)(e)  Furnishes evidence satisfactory to the agency

 2  of adequate liability insurance coverage or an adequate plan

 3  of self-insurance to respond to claims for injuries arising

 4  out of the furnishing of health care;

 5         (j)(f)  Provides, through contract or otherwise, for

 6  periodic review of its medical facilities and services, as

 7  required by the agency; and

 8         (k)(g)  Provides organizational, operational,

 9  financial, and other information required by the agency.

10         Section 2.  (1)  If the Agency for Health Care

11  Administration implements a managed care plan that would

12  include behavioral health care services in the counties of

13  Nassau, Baker, Clay, Duval, and St. Johns, the Agency for

14  Health Care Administration shall establish a workgroup to:

15         (a)  Examine strategies that would allow minority

16  access administrative service organizations and county-based

17  administrative service organizations the ability to seek a

18  capitation rate to provide innovative programs to improve

19  access to behavioral health care services in rural areas and

20  areas identified as in need of minority access providers and

21  enhance and improve access to behavioral health care services.

22         (b)  Make recommendations to the Agency for Health Care

23  Administration for incorporation in the request for proposal

24  process relating to minority access and the role of minority

25  access providers in emerging networks; the role of

26  county-based service delivery systems for the provision of

27  behavioral health care services; Department of Prepaid Mental

28  Health Plans; provider service networks; requirements to be

29  met by managed care plans when serving residents of limited

30  mental health assisted living facilities; the development of

31  administrative service organizations that may be appointed by

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 1  rural counties that may be part of the proposed managed care

 2  pilot; and the development of administrative service

 3  organizations that would focus on minority access issues and

 4  minority access providers located in the proposed pilot areas.

 5         (2)  The workgroup shall consist of local minority

 6  access providers, a representative of the North Florida

 7  Behavioral Health Center, a member of a local chapter of the

 8  National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, consumer

 9  representatives, a member appointed by the Florida Council for

10  Community Mental Health, a representative of a local county

11  government, a representative from the Department of Children

12  and Family Services, a representative from the Department of

13  Health, a representative from the Agency for Health Care

14  Administration, and a representative from the local advocacy

15  council.

16         Section 3.  (1)  The Agency for Health Care

17  Administration, in consultation with the Department of Elderly

18  Affairs, shall establish a workgroup to be entitled Best

19  Practices and Limited Mental Health Assisted Living

20  Facilities.

21         (2)  The workgroup shall identify best practices

22  associated with implementing a state-funded behavioral health

23  care service system for residents of an assisted living

24  facility that holds a limited mental health license. The

25  workgroup shall also review the need for developing enhanced

26  services for residents who have increasing medical needs

27  associated with aging or disabilities.

28         (3)  The workgroup shall identify best practices in the

29  delivery of state-funded mental health services that have

30  proven to be cost-effective and efficient in the delivery of

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 1  state-funded mental health care, particularly under managed

 2  care plans.

 3         (4)  The workgroup shall determine which services are

 4  most frequently used by residents and how integrated models of

 5  service delivery may emerge that promote best practices under

 6  managed care plans providing Medicaid-covered mental health

 7  services.

 8         (5)  The workgroup shall evaluate the strategies,

 9  services, and supports that are necessary to ensure an

10  adequate and appropriate array of state-funded mental health

11  service which promotes recovery-based outcomes as covered by

12  the Medicaid program.

13         (6)  The workgroup shall also review and, when

14  appropriate, recommend changes to laws, administrative rules,

15  and modifications to 1915C waivers that relate to eligibility

16  and services. The workgroup shall also propose legislative

17  budget recommendations needed to implement the recommendations

18  of the workgroup.

19         (7)  The workgroup shall include, but is not limited

20  to, one representative each from the Agency for Health Care

21  Administration, the Department of Elderly Affairs, the

22  Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of

23  Health, the Department of Corrections, a managed care provider

24  or its representative, one member appointed by the Florida

25  Council for Community Mental Health, one member appointed by

26  the Florida Psychiatric Society, one member appointed by the

27  Florida Coalition for Assisted Living and Mental Health, one

28  member appointed by the state chapter of the National Alliance

29  for the Mentally Ill, one member appointed by the State

30  Long-Term Care Ombudsman Council, and one member appointed by

31  the Americans with Disabilities Act Working Group.

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 1         (8)  The workgroup may request the assistance of the

 2  Florida Mental Health Institute to provide research or

 3  analysis as the agency and the workgroup members may determine

 4  necessary to accomplish its tasks.

 5         (9)  The workgroup shall elect a chair who is not an

 6  employee of the state. The workgroup shall hold meetings at

 7  the call of the chair. The workgroup shall receive staff

 8  support from the agency. The workgroup members shall each

 9  serve at his or her own expense and the workgroup shall

10  function within funds available to the Agency for Health Care

11  Administration.

12         (10)  The workgroup must prepare a report and deliver a

13  copy of the report to the Governor, the President of the

14  Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives no

15  later than January 5, 2006.

16         Section 4.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2005.

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18          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
19                         Senate Bill 1852

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21  The committee substitute establishes additional criteria for
    Medicaid prepaid health plans to provide services to persons
22  who live in a licensed assisted living facility that holds a
    limited mental health license (ALF-LMHL). The committee
23  substitute also requires that, if the Agency for Health Care
    Administration (AHCA) implements a managed care plan that
24  includes behavioral health care services in the counties of
    Nassau, Baker, Clay, Duval, and St. Johns, AHCA must establish
25  a workgroup to examine strategies that would allow
    administrative service organizations (ASOs) to seek a
26  capitation rate to provide access to behavioral health care
    services; and requires AHCA, in consultation with the
27  Department of Elderly Affairs, to establish a workgroup
    entitled Best Practices and Limited Mental Health Assisted
28  Living Facilities to identify best practices associated with
    implementing state-funded behavioral health care services to
29  residents of ALF-LMHLs.

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