Florida Senate - 2009                                    SB 1628
       
       
       
       By Senator Gelber
       
       
       
       
       35-01467-09                                           20091628__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to long-term care services; amending
    3         s. 430.707, F.S.; requiring the Agency for Health Care
    4         Administration, in consultation with the Department of
    5         Elderly Affairs, to accept and forward to the Centers
    6         for Medicare and Medicaid Services an application for
    7         expansion of a pilot project from an entity that
    8         provides certain benefits under a federal program;
    9         providing an effective date.
   10         
   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   12         
   13         Section 1. Section 430.707, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   14  read:
   15         430.707 Contracts.—
   16         (1) The department, in consultation with the agency, shall
   17  select and contract with managed care organizations and, on a
   18  prepaid basis, with other qualified providers as defined in s.
   19  430.703(7) to provide long-term care within community diversion
   20  pilot project areas. All providers shall report quarterly to the
   21  department regarding the entity's compliance with all the
   22  financial and quality assurance requirements of the contract.
   23         (2) The department, in consultation with the agency, may
   24  contract with entities that which have submitted an application
   25  as a community nursing home diversion project as of July 1,
   26  1998, to provide benefits pursuant to the “Program of All
   27  inclusive Care for the Elderly” as established in Pub. L. No.
   28  105-33. For the purposes of this community nursing home
   29  diversion project, such entities are shall be exempt from the
   30  requirements of chapter 641, if the entity is a private,
   31  nonprofit, superior-rated nursing home and if with at least 50
   32  percent of its residents are eligible for Medicaid. The agency,
   33  in consultation with the department, shall accept and forward to
   34  the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services an application
   35  for expansion of the pilot project from an entity that provides
   36  benefits pursuant to the Program of All-inclusive Care for the
   37  Elderly and that is in good standing with the agency, the
   38  department, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
   39         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2009.