Florida Senate - 2019 SB 950 By Senator Book 32-00743A-19 2019950__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to the Statewide Medicaid Residency 3 Program; amending s. 409.909, F.S.; revising the 4 definition of the term “qualifying institution” to 5 include certain community facilities and community 6 mental health centers or clinics; providing an 7 effective date. 8 9 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 10 11 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section 12 409.909, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 13 409.909 Statewide Medicaid Residency Program.— 14 (2) On or before September 15 of each year, the agency 15 shall calculate an allocation fraction to be used for 16 distributing funds to participating hospitals and to qualifying 17 institutions as defined in paragraph (c). On or before the final 18 business day of each quarter of a state fiscal year, the agency 19 shall distribute to each participating hospital one-fourth of 20 that hospital’s annual allocation calculated under subsection 21 (4). The allocation fraction for each participating hospital is 22 based on the hospital’s number of full-time equivalent residents 23 and the amount of its Medicaid payments. As used in this 24 section, the term: 25 (c) “Qualifying institution” means a federally qualified 26 health center, a community facility as defined in s. 394.455(8), 27 or a community mental health center or clinic as defined in s. 28 394.455(9), which holdsholdingan Accreditation Council for 29 Graduate Medical Education institutional accreditation. 30 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.