Florida Senate - 2007                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 1828
                        Barcode 325302
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11  The Committee on Health and Human Services Appropriations
12  (Saunders) recommended the following amendment:
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         Delete everything after the enacting clause
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17  and insert:  
18         Section 1.  Subsections (8) and (9) of section
19  409.91211, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
20         409.91211  Medicaid managed care pilot program.--
21         (8)(a)  The agency shall develop a methodology for
22  calculating risk-adjusted capitation rates using comprehensive
23  encounter data pursuant to subparagraph (3)(p)4. for all
24  Medicaid services specified under this section. The agency
25  shall concentrate on the managed care pilot areas in its
26  efforts to gather comprehensive encounter data. Prior to the
27  implementation of a risk-adjusted capitation rate methodology
28  that uses a comprehensive encounter data system, the agency
29  shall ensure that all of the following criteria are met:
30         1.  The agency has confirmed that the encounter data
31  are accurate and have been screened for completeness, logic,
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Florida Senate - 2007 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 1828 Barcode 325302 1 and consistency. 2 2. The agency has compiled no less than 1 year's worth 3 of complete encounter data to permit the adjustment of 4 capitation rates for health risk differences and has ensured 5 that the data are of sufficient integrity to be used for 6 risk-adjustment purposes in accordance with actuarial 7 standards of practice which are generally recognized as sound 8 and appropriate. 9 3. The agency has consulted with and sought input from 10 the technical advisory panel regarding the development and 11 implementation of the comprehensive encounter data system as 12 the system is developed. 13 (b) The agency may implement an interim risk-adjusted 14 capitation rate methodology to be used before a fully 15 functional encounter data system has been in operation for 12 16 months, pursuant to paragraph (a). 17 The agency must ensure, in the first two state fiscal 18 years in which a risk-adjusted methodology is a component of 19 rate setting, that no managed care plan providing 20 comprehensive benefits to TANF and SSI recipients has an 21 aggregate risk score that varies by more than 10 percent from 22 the aggregate weighted mean of all managed care plans 23 providing comprehensive benefits to TANF and SSI recipients in 24 a reform area. The agency's payment to a managed care plan 25 shall be based on such revised aggregate risk score. 26 (9) Risk-adjusted After any calculations of aggregate 27 risk scores or revised aggregate risk scores in subsection 28 (8), the capitation rates for plans participating under this 29 section shall be phased in as follows: 30 (a) In the first year of the pilot program, the 31 capitation rates shall be weighted so that 75 percent of each 2 12:52 PM 04/24/07 s1828.ha37.j04
Florida Senate - 2007 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 1828 Barcode 325302 1 capitation rate is based on the current methodology developed 2 under s. 409.9124 and 25 percent is based on a new 3 risk-adjusted capitation rate methodology developed under 4 subsection (8). During the first year of the pilot program, no 5 managed care plan's aggregate risk score shall vary by more 6 than 10 percent from the aggregate weighted mean of all 7 managed care plans providing comprehensive benefits to TANF or 8 SSI recipients in a reform area. 9 (b) In the second year of the pilot program, the 10 capitation rates shall be weighted so that 67 50 percent of 11 each capitation rate is based on the current methodology 12 developed under s. 409.9124 and 33 50 percent is based on a 13 new risk-adjusted capitation rate methodology developed under 14 subsection (8). During the second year of the pilot program, 15 no managed care plan's aggregate risk score shall vary by more 16 than 10 percent from the aggregate weighted mean of all 17 managed care plans providing comprehensive benefits to TANF or 18 SSI recipients in a reform area. 19 (c) In the third year of the pilot program, the 20 capitation rates shall be weighted so that 67 percent of each 21 capitation rate is based on the methodology developed under s. 22 409.9124 and 33 percent is based on a risk-adjusted capitation 23 rate methodology developed under subsection (8). During the 24 third year of the pilot program, no managed care plan's 25 aggregate risk score shall vary by more than 12.5 percent from 26 the aggregate weighted mean of all managed care plans 27 providing comprehensive benefits to TANF or SSI recipients in 28 a reform area. In the following fiscal year, the risk-adjusted 29 capitation methodology may be fully implemented. 30 (d) In the fourth year of the pilot program, the 31 agency shall seek to implement a risk-adjusted capitation rate 3 12:52 PM 04/24/07 s1828.ha37.j04
Florida Senate - 2007 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 1828 Barcode 325302 1 methodology using comprehensive encounter data pursuant to 2 paragraph (8)(a). Capitation rates in the fourth year shall be 3 weighted so that 50 percent of each capitation rate is based 4 on the methodology developed under s. 409.9124 and 50 percent 5 is based on a risk-adjusted capitation rate methodology which 6 uses a comprehensive encounter data system, and no managed 7 care plan's aggregate risk score shall vary by more than 15 8 percent from the aggregate weighted mean of all managed care 9 plans providing comprehensive benefits to TANF or SSI 10 recipients in a reform area. 11 (e) In the years following the first use of a 12 risk-adjusted capitation rate methodology using comprehensive 13 encounter data pursuant to paragraph (8)(a), such methodology 14 shall be fully implemented and shall account for 100 percent 15 of managed care plan capitation rates. 16 Section 2. For the purposes of payment to otherwise 17 noncontracted hospital providers for services rendered to 18 persons who are eligible for Medicaid in the reform pilot 19 areas and enrolled in a managed care organization under 20 chapter 409 or chapter 641, Florida Statutes, the managed care 21 organization shall reimburse such providers at a rate that is 22 equivalent to the amount the Agency for Health Care 23 Administration would pay on a fee-for-service basis. 24 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2007. 25 26 27 ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T =============== 28 And the title is amended as follows: 29 Delete everything before the enacting clause 30 31 and insert: 4 12:52 PM 04/24/07 s1828.ha37.j04
Florida Senate - 2007 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 1828 Barcode 325302 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to the Medicaid managed care 3 pilot program; amending s. 409.91211, F.S.; 4 requiring the Agency for Health Care 5 Administration to develop a methodology for 6 calculating risk-adjusted capitation rates 7 based on comprehensive encounter data; 8 requiring that specified criteria be met prior 9 to implementation of the methodology; providing 10 for use of an interim risk-adjusted 11 methodology; providing a phase-in schedule for 12 the risk-adjusted methodology for participating 13 managed care plans; providing a payment rate 14 for noncontracted providers in Medicaid reform 15 pilot areas; providing an effective date. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 5 12:52 PM 04/24/07 s1828.ha37.j04