Florida Senate - 2014                             CS for SB 1726
       
       
        
       By the Committees on Appropriations; and Children, Families, and
       Elder Affairs
       
       
       
       
       576-04209-14                                          20141726c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to crisis stabilization services;
    3         amending s. 394.9082, F.S.; requiring the Department
    4         of Children and Families to develop standards and
    5         protocols for the collection, storage, transmittal,
    6         and analysis of utilization data from public receiving
    7         facilities; defining the term “public receiving
    8         facility”; requiring the department to require
    9         compliance by managing entities by a specified date;
   10         requiring a managing entity to require public
   11         receiving facilities in its provider network to submit
   12         certain data within specified timeframes; requiring
   13         managing entities to reconcile data to ensure
   14         accuracy; requiring managing entities to submit
   15         certain data to the department within specified
   16         timeframes; requiring the department to create a
   17         statewide database; requiring the department to adopt
   18         rules; requiring the department to submit an annual
   19         report to the Governor and the Legislature; providing
   20         that implementation is subject to specific
   21         appropriations; providing an effective date.
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   23  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   24  
   25         Section 1. Present subsections (10) and (11) of section
   26  394.9082, Florida Statutes, are renumbered as subsections (11)
   27  and (12), respectively, and a new subsection (10) is added to
   28  that section, to read:
   29         394.9082 Behavioral health managing entities.—
   30         (10) CRISIS STABILIZATION SERVICES UTILIZATION DATABASE.
   31  The department shall develop, implement, and maintain standards
   32  under which a managing entity shall collect utilization data
   33  from all public receiving facilities situated within its
   34  geographic service area. As used in this subsection, the term
   35  “public receiving facility” means an entity that meets the
   36  licensure requirements of and is designated by the department to
   37  operate as a public receiving facility under s. 394.875 and that
   38  is operating as a licensed crisis stabilization unit.
   39         (a) The department shall develop standards and protocols
   40  for managing entities and public receiving facilities to be used
   41  for data collection, storage, transmittal, and analysis. The
   42  standards and protocols must allow for compatibility of data and
   43  data transmittal between public receiving facilities, managing
   44  entities, and the department for the implementation and
   45  requirements of this subsection. The department shall require
   46  managing entities contracted under this section to comply with
   47  this subsection by August 1, 2014.
   48         (b) A managing entity shall require a public receiving
   49  facility within its provider network to submit data, in real
   50  time or at least daily, to the managing entity for:
   51         1. All admissions and discharges of clients receiving
   52  public receiving facility services who qualify as indigent, as
   53  defined in s. 394.4787; and
   54         2. Current active census of total licensed beds, the number
   55  of beds purchased by the department, the number of clients
   56  qualifying as indigent occupying those beds, and the total
   57  number of unoccupied licensed beds regardless of funding.
   58         (c) A managing entity shall require a public receiving
   59  facility within its provider network to submit data, on a
   60  monthly basis, to the managing entity which aggregates the daily
   61  data submitted under paragraph (b). The managing entity shall
   62  reconcile the data in the monthly submission to the data
   63  received by the managing entity under paragraph (b) to check for
   64  consistency. If the monthly aggregate data submitted by a public
   65  receiving facility under this paragraph is inconsistent with the
   66  daily data submitted under paragraph (b), the managing entity
   67  shall consult with the public receiving facility to make
   68  corrections as necessary to ensure accurate data.
   69         (d) A managing entity shall require a public receiving
   70  facility within its provider network to submit data, on an
   71  annual basis, to the managing entity which aggregates the data
   72  submitted and reconciled under paragraph (c). The managing
   73  entity shall reconcile the data in the annual submission to the
   74  data received and reconciled by the managing entity under
   75  paragraph (c) to check for consistency. If the annual aggregate
   76  data submitted by a public receiving facility under this
   77  paragraph is inconsistent with the data received and reconciled
   78  under paragraph (c), the managing entity shall consult with the
   79  public receiving facility to make corrections as necessary to
   80  ensure accurate data.
   81         (e) After ensuring accurate data under paragraphs (c) and
   82  (d), the managing entity shall submit the data to the department
   83  on a monthly and annual basis. The department shall create a
   84  statewide database for the data described under paragraph (b)
   85  and submitted under this paragraph for the purpose of analyzing
   86  the payments for and the use of crisis stabilization services
   87  funded by the Baker Act on a statewide basis and on an
   88  individual public receiving facility basis.
   89         (f) The department shall adopt rules to administer this
   90  subsection.
   91         (g) The department shall submit a report by January 31,
   92  2015, and annually thereafter, to the Governor, the President of
   93  the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives
   94  which provides details on the implementation of this subsection,
   95  including the status of the data collection process and a
   96  detailed analysis of the data collected under this subsection.
   97         (h) The implementation of this subsection is subject to
   98  specific appropriations provided to the department under the
   99  General Appropriations Act.
  100         Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.