Florida Senate - 2015 SB 340
By Senator Grimsley
21-00441-15 2015340__
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:
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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 use in
41 the collection, storage, transmittal, and analysis of data. 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, 2015.
48 (b) A managing entity shall require a public receiving
49 facility within its provider network to submit data to the
50 managing entity, in real time or at least daily, 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 an 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 2016, 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.