Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1972
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/15/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Budget (Sobel) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 3845 - 3861
    4  and insert:
    5         1. Faculty plans of state medical schools, unless the
    6  medical school and an affiliated teaching hospital owns or
    7  collaboratively operates a provider service network in the
    8  region;
    9         2. Regional perinatal intensive care centers as defined in
   10  s. 383.16; and
   11         3. Hospitals licensed as a children’s specialty hospital as
   12  defined in s. 395.002.
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   14  Qualified plans that have not contracted with all statewide
   15  essential providers as of the first date of recipient enrollment
   16  must continue to negotiate in good faith. Payments to a
   17  nonparticipating essential provider must be equal to the highest
   18  rate established by contract between that provider and any other
   19  Medicaid managed care plan.