Florida Senate - 2013                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1094
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/02/2013           .                                
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       The Committee on Health Policy (Flores) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
    2  
    3         Between lines 111 and 112
    4  insert:
    5         (7) A home health agency shall submit to the agency, within
    6  15 days after the end of each calendar quarter, a written report
    7  that includes the following data as they existed on the last day
    8  of the quarter:
    9         (a) The number of insulin-dependent diabetic patients who
   10  receive insulin-injection services from the home health agency.
   11         (b) The number of patients who receive both home health
   12  services from the home health agency and hospice services.
   13         (c) The number of patients who receive home health services
   14  from the home health agency.
   15         (d) The name and license number of each nurse whose primary
   16  job responsibility is to provide home health services to
   17  patients and who received remuneration from the home health
   18  agency in excess of $25,000 during the calendar quarter.
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   20  If the home health agency fails to submit the written quarterly
   21  report within 15 days after the end of each calendar quarter,
   22  the Agency for Health Care Administration shall impose a fine
   23  against the home health agency in the amount of $200 per day
   24  until the Agency for Health Care Administration receives the
   25  report, except that the total fine imposed pursuant to this
   26  subsection may not exceed $5,000 per quarter. A home health
   27  agency is exempt from the imposition of the fine if it is not a
   28  Medicaid or Medicare provider or if it does not share a
   29  controlling interest with an entity licensed, registered, or
   30  certified under part II of chapter 408 which bills the Florida
   31  Medicaid program or the Medicare program.
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   34         And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   35         Delete lines 10 - 11
   36  and insert:
   37         Section 1. Present subsection (7) of section 400.474,
   38  Florida Statutes, is renumbered as subsection (8), a new
   39  subsection (7) is added to that section, and subsection (6) of
   40  that section is amended, to read:
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   43         And the title is amended as follows:
   44         Delete lines 3 - 6
   45  and insert:
   46         400.474, F.S.; revising the requirements for the
   47         quarterly reporting by a home health agency of certain
   48         data submitted to the Agency for Health Care
   49         Administration; imposing a fine for failure to timely
   50         submit the quarterly report; providing an exemption to
   51         the imposition of the fine; providing an effective
   52         date.