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Florida Senate - 2007 CS for SB 430
By the Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; and
Senators Saunders and Lynn
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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to mental health facilities;
3 amending s. 394.461, F.S.; requiring mental
4 health and treatment facilities designated by
5 the Department of Children and Family Services
6 to report certain financial and health service
7 data to the department; providing a definition;
8 providing reporting deadlines; providing a
9 report by the department; providing an
10 effective date.
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12 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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14 Section 1. Present subsection (4) of section 394.461,
15 Florida Statutes, is renumbered as subsection (5), and a new
16 subsection (4) is added to that section, to read:
17 394.461 Designation of receiving and treatment
18 facilities.--The department is authorized to designate and
19 monitor receiving facilities and treatment facilities and may
20 suspend or withdraw such designation for failure to comply
21 with this part and rules adopted under this part. Unless
22 designated by the department, facilities are not permitted to
23 hold or treat involuntary patients under this part.
24 (4)(a) A facility designated as a public receiving or
25 treatment facility under this section shall report to the
26 department on an annual basis the following data, unless these
27 data are currently being submitted to the Agency for Health
28 Care Administration:
29 1. Number of licensed beds.
30 2. Number of contract days.
31 3. Number of admissions by payer class and diagnoses.
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1 4. Number of bed days by payer class.
2 5. Average length of stay by payer class.
3 6. Total revenues by payer class.
4 (b) For the purposes of this subsection, "payer class"
5 means Medicare, Medicare HMO, Medicaid, Medicaid HMO,
6 private-pay health insurance, private-pay health maintenance
7 organization, private preferred provider organization, the
8 Department of Children and Family Services, other government
9 programs, self-pay patients, and charity care.
10 (c) The data required under this subsection shall be
11 submitted to the department no later than 90 days following
12 the end of the facility's fiscal year. A facility designated
13 as a public receiving or treatment facility shall submit its
14 initial report for the 6-month period ending June 30, 2008.
15 (d) The department shall issue an annual report based
16 on the data required pursuant to this subsection. The report
17 shall include individual facilities' data, as well as
18 statewide totals. The report shall be submitted to the
19 Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the
20 House of Representatives.
21 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.
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1 STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
2 Senate Bill 430
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4 The committee substitute:
5 - Removes the provision that private facilities are
entitled to reimbursement for Baker Act admissions.
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- Provides that data about Baker Act facilities is to be
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(DCF) unless it is already being submitted to the Agency
8 for Health Care Administration (AHCA).
9 - Clarifies what data is to be reported.
10 - Makes DCF, rather than AHCA, responsible for compiling
and publishing the data.
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