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By the Committee on Health and Human Services Appropriations;
and Senator Peaden
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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to Medicaid; providing for a
3 comprehensive geriatric fall-prevention
4 program; requiring the Agency for Health Care
5 Administration to establish a Medicaid
6 comprehensive geriatric fall-prevention
7 program; directing the agency to develop the
8 program as an expansion of a certain pilot
9 project conducted in Miami-Dade County;
10 requiring the agency to evaluate the program
11 and report to the Legislature; requiring a plan
12 and timetable for statewide implementation
13 contingent on certain findings; specifying a
14 timeframe for implementing a certain form of
15 reimbursement; providing an appropriation;
16 providing an effective date.
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18 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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20 Section 1. Comprehensive geriatric fall-prevention
21 program.--
22 (1)(a) The Agency for Health Care Administration shall
23 establish a comprehensive geriatric fall-prevention program
24 for Medicaid recipients in Miami-Dade County. The program
25 shall be evidence-based and shall expand the geriatric
26 fall-prevention demonstration project awarded under contract
27 in 2002 by the Agency for Health Care Administration. The
28 program shall serve up to 7,000 Medicaid recipients during the
29 first year of operation and shall be in operation within 120
30 days after the effective date of this act.
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1 (b) The agency shall evaluate the cost-effectiveness
2 and the clinical effectiveness of the program and report its
3 findings to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the
4 House of Representatives by January 1, 2009. If the findings
5 indicate that the program is cost-effective and clinically
6 effective, the report must include a plan and timetable for
7 statewide implementation. In evaluating the cost-effectiveness
8 and the clinical effectiveness of the program, the agency must
9 consider findings from program evaluations and site-visit
10 reports relating to the demonstration project described in
11 paragraph (a).
12 (2) Services provided under subsection (1) shall be
13 paid for on the same basis as in the demonstration contracts
14 described in subsection (1). Beginning on the first day of
15 operation of the third year of program implementation, as
16 authorized under this section, services shall be reimbursed
17 only on a capitated, risk-adjusted basis.
18 Section 2. The sums of $2,320,987 from the General
19 Revenue Fund and $3,307,013 from the Medical Care Trust Fund
20 are appropriated to the Agency for Health Care Administration
21 for the purposes of implementing the provisions of this act.
22 Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a
23 law.
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1 STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
2 Senate Bill 1000
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4 Limits the program to Dade county only and removes specific
references to actual contract numbers.
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Reduces the number of individuals served by the program from
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7 Deletes legislative intent language requiring that the program
be included as a certification or credentialing requirement of
8 any plan choosing to participate in Medicaid reform that
serves Medicaid recipients at risk for falls.
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Provides an appropriation to the Agency for Health Care
10 Administration to implement the provisions in the bill.
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