Florida Senate - 2019                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 302
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    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)
    2  
    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.
   59  
   60  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   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.