Florida Senate - 2015 CS for SB 340
By the Committee on Appropriations; and Senator Grimsley
576-03799-15 2015340c1
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 an appropriation; providing an effective date.
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22 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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24 Section 1. Present subsections (10) and (11) of section
25 394.9082, Florida Statutes, are renumbered as subsections (11)
26 and (12), respectively, and a new subsection (10) is added to
27 that section, to read:
28 394.9082 Behavioral health managing entities.—
29 (10) CRISIS STABILIZATION SERVICES UTILIZATION DATABASE.
30 The department shall develop, implement, and maintain standards
31 under which a managing entity shall collect utilization data
32 from all public receiving facilities situated within its
33 geographic service area. As used in this subsection, the term
34 “public receiving facility” means an entity that meets the
35 licensure requirements of and is designated by the department to
36 operate as a public receiving facility under s. 394.875 and that
37 is operating as a licensed crisis stabilization unit.
38 (a) The department shall develop standards and protocols
39 for managing entities and public receiving facilities to use in
40 the collection, storage, transmittal, and analysis of data. The
41 standards and protocols must allow for compatibility of data and
42 data transmittal between public receiving facilities, managing
43 entities, and the department for the implementation and
44 requirements of this subsection. The department shall require
45 managing entities contracted under this section to comply with
46 this subsection by August 1, 2015.
47 (b) A managing entity shall require a public receiving
48 facility within its provider network to submit data to the
49 managing entity, in real time or at least daily, for:
50 1. All admissions and discharges of clients receiving
51 public receiving facility services who qualify as indigent, as
52 defined in s. 394.4787; and
53 2. Current active census of total licensed beds, the number
54 of beds purchased by the department, the number of clients
55 qualifying as indigent occupying those beds, and the total
56 number of unoccupied licensed beds regardless of funding.
57 (c) A managing entity shall require a public receiving
58 facility within its provider network to submit data, on a
59 monthly basis, to the managing entity which aggregates the daily
60 data submitted under paragraph (b). The managing entity shall
61 reconcile the data in the monthly submission to the data
62 received by the managing entity under paragraph (b) to check for
63 consistency. If the monthly aggregate data submitted by a public
64 receiving facility under this paragraph is inconsistent with the
65 daily data submitted under paragraph (b), the managing entity
66 shall consult with the public receiving facility to make
67 corrections as necessary to ensure accurate data.
68 (d) A managing entity shall require a public receiving
69 facility within its provider network to submit data, on an
70 annual basis, to the managing entity which aggregates the data
71 submitted and reconciled under paragraph (c). The managing
72 entity shall reconcile the data in the annual submission to the
73 data received and reconciled by the managing entity under
74 paragraph (c) to check for consistency. If the annual aggregate
75 data submitted by a public receiving facility under this
76 paragraph is inconsistent with the data received and reconciled
77 under paragraph (c), the managing entity shall consult with the
78 public receiving facility to make corrections as necessary to
79 ensure accurate data.
80 (e) After ensuring accurate data under paragraphs (c) and
81 (d), the managing entity shall submit the data to the department
82 on a monthly and an annual basis. The department shall create a
83 statewide database for the data described under paragraph (b)
84 and submitted under this paragraph for the purpose of analyzing
85 the payments for and the use of crisis stabilization services
86 funded by the Baker Act on a statewide basis and on an
87 individual public receiving facility basis.
88 (f) The department shall adopt rules to administer this
89 subsection.
90 (g) The department shall submit a report by January 31,
91 2016, and annually thereafter, to the Governor, the President of
92 the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives
93 which provides details on the implementation of this subsection,
94 including the status of the data collection process and a
95 detailed analysis of the data collected under this subsection.
96 Section 2. For the 2015-2016 fiscal year, the sum of
97 $175,000 in nonrecurring funds is appropriated from the Alcohol,
98 Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Trust Fund to the Department of
99 Children and Families to implement this act.
100 Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.