Florida Senate - 2009                                    SB 1050
       
       
       
       By Senator Joyner
       
       
       
       
       18-00389A-09                                          20091050__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to Medicaid; requiring the Agency for
    3         Health Care Administration to report to the Governor
    4         and the Legislature regarding Medicaid's refusal to
    5         provide reimbursement for preventable medical errors;
    6         requiring the agency to identify preventable medical
    7         errors that are not reimbursed by Medicaid programs in
    8         other states, the Medicare program, and private
    9         insurers and recommend to the Governor and the
   10         Legislature an expanded list of preventable medical
   11         errors for which the Medicaid program may refuse
   12         reimbursement; providing an effective date.
   13         
   14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   15         
   16         Section 1. (1) By February 1, 2010, the Agency for Health
   17  Care Administration shall report to the Governor, the President
   18  of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives:
   19         (a) The number and types of preventable medical errors that
   20  occurred in hospitals from July 1, 2008, to December 31, 2009,
   21  for which the state Medicaid program refused reimbursement and
   22  the dollar value of the denied claims.
   23         (b) Whether there was a decline in the number of billings
   24  by hospitals for preventable medical errors under the state
   25  Medicaid policy since July 1, 2008, and the estimated cost
   26  saving to Medicaid.
   27         (c) Any obstacles or impediments experienced by the agency
   28  in implementing the policy of Medicaid's refusal to reimburse
   29  hospitals for preventable medical errors that occurred from July
   30  1, 2008, to December 31, 2009.
   31         (2) The agency shall identify preventable medical errors
   32  for which Medicaid programs in other states, the Medicare
   33  program, and private insurers do not provide reimbursement, and
   34  recommend to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the
   35  Speaker of the House of Representatives by February 1, 2010, an
   36  expanded list of preventable medical errors for which this
   37  state's Medicaid program may refuse reimbursement.
   38         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2009.