| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to mental health facilities; amending s. |
| 3 | 394.461, F.S.; requiring mental health receiving and |
| 4 | treatment facilities designated by the Department of |
| 5 | Children and Family Services to report certain financial |
| 6 | and health service data to the department; providing a |
| 7 | definition; providing reporting deadlines; requiring the |
| 8 | department to submit a report to the Governor and |
| 9 | Legislature; providing an effective date. |
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| 11 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 13 | Section 1. Subsection (4) of section 394.461, Florida |
| 14 | Statutes, is renumbered as subsection (5), and a new subsection |
| 15 | (4) is added to that section to read: |
| 16 | 394.461 Designation of receiving and treatment |
| 17 | facilities.--The department is authorized to designate and |
| 18 | monitor receiving facilities and treatment facilities and may |
| 19 | suspend or withdraw such designation for failure to comply with |
| 20 | this part and rules adopted under this part. Unless designated |
| 21 | by the department, facilities are not permitted to hold or treat |
| 22 | involuntary patients under this part. |
| 23 | (4)(a) A facility designated as a public receiving or |
| 24 | treatment facility under this section shall report to the |
| 25 | department on an annual basis the following data, unless these |
| 26 | data are currently being submitted to the Agency for Health Care |
| 27 | Administration: |
| 28 | 1. Number of licensed beds. |
| 29 | 2. Number of contract days. |
| 30 | 3. Number of admissions by payer class and diagnoses. |
| 31 | 4. Number of bed days by payer class. |
| 32 | 5. Average length of stay by payer class. |
| 33 | 6. Total revenues by payer class. |
| 34 | (b) For the purposes of this subsection, "payer class" |
| 35 | means Medicare, Medicare HMO, Medicaid, Medicaid HMO, private- |
| 36 | pay health insurance, private-pay health maintenance |
| 37 | organization, private preferred provider organization, the |
| 38 | Department of Children and Family Services, other government |
| 39 | programs, self-pay patients, and charity care. |
| 40 | (c) The data required under this subsection shall be |
| 41 | submitted to the department no later than 90 days following the |
| 42 | end of the facility's fiscal year. A facility designated as a |
| 43 | public receiving or treatment facility shall submit its initial |
| 44 | report for the 6-month period ending June 30, 2008. |
| 45 | (d) The department shall issue an annual report based on |
| 46 | the data required under this subsection. The report shall |
| 47 | include data for individual facilities as well as statewide |
| 48 | totals. The report shall be submitted to the Governor, the |
| 49 | President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of |
| 50 | Representatives. |
| 51 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2007. |