Florida Senate - 2013                       CS for CS for SB 896
       
       
       
       By the Committees on Appropriations; and Health Policy; and
       Senators Garcia and Flores
       
       
       
       576-04930-13                                           2013896c2
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to prepaid dental plans; amending s.
    3         409.912, F.S.; postponing the scheduled repeal of a
    4         provision requiring the Agency for Health Care
    5         Administration to contract with dental plans for
    6         dental services on a prepaid or fixed-sum basis;
    7         authorizing the agency to provide a prepaid dental
    8         health program in Miami-Dade County on a permanent
    9         basis; requiring an annual report to the Governor and
   10         Legislature; providing an effective date.
   11  
   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   14         Section 1. Subsection (41) of section 409.912, Florida
   15  Statutes, is amended to read:
   16         409.912 Cost-effective purchasing of health care.—The
   17  agency shall purchase goods and services for Medicaid recipients
   18  in the most cost-effective manner consistent with the delivery
   19  of quality medical care. To ensure that medical services are
   20  effectively utilized, the agency may, in any case, require a
   21  confirmation or second physician’s opinion of the correct
   22  diagnosis for purposes of authorizing future services under the
   23  Medicaid program. This section does not restrict access to
   24  emergency services or poststabilization care services as defined
   25  in 42 C.F.R. part 438.114. Such confirmation or second opinion
   26  shall be rendered in a manner approved by the agency. The agency
   27  shall maximize the use of prepaid per capita and prepaid
   28  aggregate fixed-sum basis services when appropriate and other
   29  alternative service delivery and reimbursement methodologies,
   30  including competitive bidding pursuant to s. 287.057, designed
   31  to facilitate the cost-effective purchase of a case-managed
   32  continuum of care. The agency shall also require providers to
   33  minimize the exposure of recipients to the need for acute
   34  inpatient, custodial, and other institutional care and the
   35  inappropriate or unnecessary use of high-cost services. The
   36  agency shall contract with a vendor to monitor and evaluate the
   37  clinical practice patterns of providers in order to identify
   38  trends that are outside the normal practice patterns of a
   39  provider’s professional peers or the national guidelines of a
   40  provider’s professional association. The vendor must be able to
   41  provide information and counseling to a provider whose practice
   42  patterns are outside the norms, in consultation with the agency,
   43  to improve patient care and reduce inappropriate utilization.
   44  The agency may mandate prior authorization, drug therapy
   45  management, or disease management participation for certain
   46  populations of Medicaid beneficiaries, certain drug classes, or
   47  particular drugs to prevent fraud, abuse, overuse, and possible
   48  dangerous drug interactions. The Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics
   49  Committee shall make recommendations to the agency on drugs for
   50  which prior authorization is required. The agency shall inform
   51  the Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics Committee of its decisions
   52  regarding drugs subject to prior authorization. The agency is
   53  authorized to limit the entities it contracts with or enrolls as
   54  Medicaid providers by developing a provider network through
   55  provider credentialing. The agency may competitively bid single
   56  source-provider contracts if procurement of goods or services
   57  results in demonstrated cost savings to the state without
   58  limiting access to care. The agency may limit its network based
   59  on the assessment of beneficiary access to care, provider
   60  availability, provider quality standards, time and distance
   61  standards for access to care, the cultural competence of the
   62  provider network, demographic characteristics of Medicaid
   63  beneficiaries, practice and provider-to-beneficiary standards,
   64  appointment wait times, beneficiary use of services, provider
   65  turnover, provider profiling, provider licensure history,
   66  previous program integrity investigations and findings, peer
   67  review, provider Medicaid policy and billing compliance records,
   68  clinical and medical record audits, and other factors. Providers
   69  are not entitled to enrollment in the Medicaid provider network.
   70  The agency shall determine instances in which allowing Medicaid
   71  beneficiaries to purchase durable medical equipment and other
   72  goods is less expensive to the Medicaid program than long-term
   73  rental of the equipment or goods. The agency may establish rules
   74  to facilitate purchases in lieu of long-term rentals in order to
   75  protect against fraud and abuse in the Medicaid program as
   76  defined in s. 409.913. The agency may seek federal waivers
   77  necessary to administer these policies.
   78         (41)(a) Notwithstanding s. 409.961, the agency shall
   79  contract on a prepaid or fixed-sum basis with appropriately
   80  licensed prepaid dental health plans to provide dental services.
   81  This paragraph expires October 1, 2017 2014.
   82         (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) and for the 2012-2013
   83  fiscal year only, the agency is authorized to provide a Medicaid
   84  prepaid dental health program in Miami-Dade County. The agency
   85  shall provide an annual report by January 15 to the Governor,
   86  the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of
   87  Representatives which compares the combined reported annual
   88  benefits utilization and encounter data from all contractors,
   89  along with the agency’s findings as to projected and budgeted
   90  annual program costs, the extent to which each contracting
   91  entity is complying with all contract terms and conditions, the
   92  effect that each entity’s operation is having on access to care
   93  for Medicaid recipients in the contractor’s service area, and
   94  the statistical trends associated with indicators of good oral
   95  health among all recipients served in comparison with the
   96  state’s population as a whole. For all other counties, the
   97  agency may not limit dental services to prepaid plans and must
   98  allow qualified dental providers to provide dental services
   99  under Medicaid on a fee-for-service reimbursement methodology.
  100  The agency may seek any necessary revisions or amendments to the
  101  state plan or federal waivers in order to implement this
  102  paragraph. The agency shall terminate existing contracts as
  103  needed to implement this paragraph. This paragraph expires July
  104  1, 2013.
  105         Section 2. This act shall take effect June 30, 2013.