Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1370
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/09/2016           .                                
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       The Committee on Health Policy (Grimsley) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 46 and 47
    4  insert:
    5         Section 1. Section 409.9132, Florida Statutes, is amended
    6  to read:
    7         409.9132 Pilot project to monitor home health services.—The
    8  Agency for Health Care Administration shall expand the home
    9  health agency monitoring pilot project in Miami-Dade County on a
   10  statewide basis effective July 1, 2012, except in counties in
   11  which the program is not cost-effective, as determined by the
   12  agency. The agency shall contract with a vendor to verify the
   13  utilization and delivery of home health services and provide an
   14  electronic billing interface for home health services. The
   15  contract must require the creation of a program to submit claims
   16  electronically for the delivery of home health services. The
   17  program must verify telephonically visits for the delivery of
   18  home health services by using technology that is effective for
   19  identifying delivery of the home health services and deterring
   20  fraudulent or abusive billing for these services voice
   21  biometrics. The agency may seek amendments to the Medicaid state
   22  plan and waivers of federal laws, as necessary, to implement or
   23  expand the pilot project. Notwithstanding s. 287.057(3)(e), the
   24  agency must award the contract through the competitive
   25  solicitation process and may use the current contract to expand
   26  the home health agency monitoring pilot project to include
   27  additional counties as authorized under this section.
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   30  And the title is amended as follows:
   31         Between lines 6 and 7
   32  insert:
   33         amending s. 409.9132, F.S.; revising the manner in
   34         which the Medicaid program verifies a vendor’s visits
   35         for the delivery of home health services;