Florida Senate - 2011                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
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       Senator Negron moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 6024 - 6051
    4  and insert:
    5         (15) “Provider service network” means a network authorized
    6  under s. 409.912(4)(d), reimbursed on a prepaid basis, operated
    7  by a health care provider or group of affiliated health care
    8  providers, and which directly provides health care services
    9  under a Medicare, Medicaid, or Healthy Kids contract.
   10         Section 82. Section 641.2019, Florida Statutes, is created
   11  to read:
   12         641.2019 Provider service network certificate of
   13  authority.—A prepaid provider service network that applies for
   14  and obtains a health care provider certificate pursuant to part
   15  III of this chapter, meets the surplus requirements of s.
   16  641.225, and meets all other applicable requirements of this
   17  part may obtain a certificate of authority under s. 641.21. A
   18  certified provider service network has the same rights and
   19  responsibilities as a health maintenance organization certified
   20  under this part.
   21         Section 83. Subsection (2) of section 641.2261, Florida
   22  Statutes, is amended to read:
   23         641.2261 Application of solvency requirements to provider
   24  sponsored organizations and Medicaid provider service networks.—
   25         (2) Except for a provider service network seeking to obtain
   26  a certificate of authority under s. 641.2019, the solvency
   27  requirements in 42 C.F.R. s. 422.350, subpart H, and the
   28  solvency requirements established in approved federal waivers
   29  pursuant to chapter 409 apply to a Medicaid provider service
   30  network rather than the solvency requirements of this part.
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   33         And the title is amended as follows:
   34         Delete line 414
   35  and insert:
   36         that chapter; amending s. 641.2261, F.S.; limiting the
   37         solvency requirements applicable to provider service
   38         networks; amending s. 641.47, F.S.; redefining the