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 59, line 13, delete those lines
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18 (50) To the extent permitted by federal law and as
19 allowed under s. 409.906, the agency shall provide
20 reimbursement for emergency mental health care services for
21 Medicaid recipients in crisis-stabilization facilities
22 licensed under s. 394.875 as long as those services are less
23 expensive than the same services provided in a hospital
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25 Section 2. Section 409.91211, Florida Statutes, is
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27 409.91211 Medicaid managed care pilot program.--
28 (1) The agency is authorized to seek experimental,
29 pilot, or demonstration project waivers, pursuant to s. 1115
30 of the Social Security Act, to create a more efficient and
31 effective service delivery system that enhances quality of
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1 care and client outcomes in the Florida Medicaid program
2 pursuant to this section in two geographic areas. One
3 demonstration site shall include only Broward County. A second
4 demonstration site shall initially include Duval County and
5 shall be expanded to include Baker, Clay, and Nassau Counties
6 within 1 year after the Duval County program becomes
7 operational. This waiver authority is contingent upon federal
8 approval to preserve the upper-payment-limit funding mechanism
9 for hospitals, including a guarantee of a reasonable growth
10 factor, a methodology to allow the use of a portion of these
11 funds to serve as a risk pool for demonstration sites,
12 provisions to preserve the state's ability to use
13 intergovernmental transfers, and provisions to protect the
14 disproportionate share program authorized pursuant to this
15 chapter.
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19 And the title is amended as follows:
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21 page 3, line 6, delete those lines
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24 program could be expanded; authorizing the
25 agency to pay for emergency mental health
26 services provided through licensed
27 crisis-stabilization facilities; creating s.
28 409.91211, F.S.; specifying waiver authority
29 for the Agency for Health Care Administration
30 to establish a Medicaid reform program
31 contingent on federal approval to preserve the
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1 upper-payment-limit finding mechanism for
2 hospitals and contingent on protection of the
3 disproportionate share program authorized
4 pursuant to ch. 409, F.S.; providing
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