Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1972
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  04/15/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Budget (Sobel) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 3845 - 3861
    4  and insert:
    5         1. Faculty plans of state medical schools; and
    6         2. Hospitals licensed as a children’s specialty hospital as
    7  defined in s. 395.002.
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    9  Qualified plans that have not contracted with all statewide
   10  essential providers as of the first date of recipient enrollment
   11  must continue to negotiate in good faith. Payments to physicians
   12  on the faculty of nonparticipating state medical schools must be
   13  made at the applicable Medicaid rate. Payments to a
   14  nonparticipating specialty children’s hospital must equal the
   15  highest rate established by contract between that provider and
   16  any other Medicaid managed care plan.