Florida Senate - 2019 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for SB 302
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: WD .
03/11/2019 .
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The Committee on Banking and Insurance (Rouson) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete lines 68 - 77
4 and insert:
5 (8)(a) A managed care plan that administers the
6 nonemergency Medicaid transportation benefit or the plan’s
7 subcontracted transportation broker, or a transportation broker
8 administering the nonemergency Medicaid transportation benefit
9 for the Agency for Health Care Administration, shall attempt to
10 secure in each county nonemergency ambulance transportation
11 services with the ambulance provider or providers that have
12 obtained a certificate of public convenience and necessity in
13 the county.
14 (b) If a managed care plan, its subcontracted
15 transportation broker, or a transportation broker is unable to
16 secure nonemergency ambulance transportation services in a
17 county after a good faith attempt, the managed care plan, its
18 subcontracted transportation broker, or the transportation
19 broker may request an ambulance provider that is licensed as a
20 basic life support service or an advanced life support service
21 in accordance with this section and that uses vehicles permitted
22 in accordance with s. 401.26. Such an ambulance provider may
23 provide nonemergency Medicaid transportation services in the
24 county and is exempt from paragraph (2)(d). For purposes of this
25 paragraph, a managed care plan, its subcontracted transportation
26 broker, or a transportation broker has in good faith attempted
27 to secure a nonemergency transportation trip with an ambulance
28 provider in a county when the following have occurred:
29 1. The managed care plan, its subcontracted transportation
30 broker, or the transportation broker has contacted all providers
31 that operate within the county which are licensed as a basic
32 life support service or an advanced life support service in
33 accordance with this section and use vehicles permitted in
34 accordance with s. 401.26, regarding the need for a nonemergency
35 ambulance Medicaid transportation trip in the county and the
36 applicable timeframe for the trip requested;
37 2. In making the contact pursuant to subparagraph 1., the
38 managed care plan, its subcontracted transportation broker, or
39 the transportation broker offered to schedule a nonemergency
40 ambulance Medicaid transportation trip at the established
41 Medicaid rate and in accordance with such other terms required
42 by the Agency for Health Care Administration; and
43 3. The managed care plan, its subcontracted transportation
44 broker, or the transportation broker allowed a reasonable time
45 period after delivery of the offer, given the circumstances of
46 the transportation need and the urgency of the request, for the
47 ambulance provider to accept and schedule the trip or decline
48 the trip. An ambulance provider that fails to respond to a
49 request within a reasonable period of time is deemed to have
50 declined the trip request.
51 (c) A managed care plan, its subcontracted transportation
52 broker, or a transportation broker shall retain for at least 5
53 years records that document all good faith attempts to secure a
54 nonemergency transportation trip with an ambulance provider
55 pursuant to this subsection and any instances of securing
56 nonemergency transportation services with an ambulance provider
57 that does not possess a certificate of public convenience and
58 necessity in the county where the service was provided.
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61 And the title is amended as follows:
62 Delete lines 17 - 21
63 and insert:
64 F.S.; requiring certain managed care plans or their
65 subcontracted transportation brokers or certain
66 transportation brokers to attempt to secure in each
67 county nonemergency ambulance transportation services
68 with the ambulance provider or providers that have
69 obtained a certificate of public convenience and
70 necessity in the county; authorizing the managed care
71 plan, its subcontracted transportation broker, or the
72 transportation broker to request an ambulance provider
73 licensed as a basic life support service or an
74 advanced life support service under certain
75 circumstances; authorizing the ambulance provider to
76 provide nonemergency Medicaid transportation services
77 in that county; exempting the ambulance provider from
78 certain certificate of public convenience and
79 necessity requirements; specifying the circumstances
80 under which a managed care plan, its subcontracted
81 transportation broker, or a transportation broker has
82 in good faith attempted to secure a nonemergency
83 transportation trip with an ambulance provider;
84 requiring a managed care plan, its subcontracted
85 transportation broker, or a transportation broker to
86 retain certain records for a specified minimum period;
87 providing an effective date.