Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1516
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  01/26/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (Storms)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Substitute for Amendment (194354) 
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    3         Delete lines 556 - 565
    4  and insert:
    5  	(2) A provider of services rendered to persons with
    6  developmental disabilities pursuant to a federally approved
    7  waiver shall be reimbursed according to a rate methodology based
    8  upon an analysis of the expenditure history and prospective
    9  costs of providers participating in the waiver program, or under
   10  any other methodology in accordance to a uniform rate structure
   11  applied to all providers of Intensive Behavioral services
   12  regardless of licensure developed by the Agency for Health Care
   13  Administration, in consultation with the agency for Persons with
   14  Disabilities, and approved by the Federal Government in
   15  accordance with the waiver.