Florida Senate - 2005                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 838
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11  Senator Peaden moved the following amendment:
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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
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15            page 78, line 17, delete those lines
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18         Section 9.  By January 15, 2006, the Office of Program
19  Policy Analysis and Government Accountability shall submit to
20  the Legislature a study of the long-term care community
21  diversion pilot project authorized under sections
22  430.701-430.709, Florida Statutes. The study may be conducted
23  by staff of the Office of Program Policy Analysis and
24  Government Accountability or by a consultant obtained through
25  a competitive bid pursuant to the provisions of chapter 287,
26  Florida Statutes. The study must use a statistically-valid
27  methodology to assess the percent of persons served in the
28  project over a 2-year period who would have required Medicaid
29  nursing home services without the diversion services, which
30  services are most frequently used, and which services are
31  least frequently used. The study must determine whether the
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    Florida Senate - 2005                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 838
                        Barcode 243474
 1  project is cost-effective or is an expansion of the Medicaid
 2  program because a preponderance of the project enrollees would
 3  not have required Medicaid nursing home services within a
 4  2-year period regardless of the availability of the project or
 5  that the enrollees could have been safely served through
 6  another Medicaid program at a lower cost to the state.
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12  And the title is amended as follows:
13         On page 3, line 28, through
14            page 4, line 4, delete those lines
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17         resort; requiring the Office of Program Policy
18         Analysis and Government Accountability to
19         conduct a study of the long-term care diversion
20         programs;
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