Florida Senate - 2005                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 404
                        Barcode 110780
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11  Senator Peaden moved the following amendment:
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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
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17         Section 14.  Medicaid Physician Upper-Payment-Limit
18  Council.--
19         (1)  The Agency for Health Care Administration shall
20  create a Medicaid Physician Upper-Payment-Limit Council.
21         (2)  The purpose of the council is to study and make
22  recommendations regarding:
23         (a)  Enhanced Medicaid funding through the Special
24  Medicaid Payment Program.
25         (b)  The federal status of the Medicaid
26  Upper-Payment-Limit funding option.
27         (3)  The council shall include representatives of the
28  Executive Office of the Governor; representatives of the
29  Agency for Health Care Administration; and representatives of
30  the colleges of medicine that participate in the Medicaid
31  Physician Upper-Payment-Limit Program, including the
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    Florida Senate - 2005                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 404
                        Barcode 110780
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 2  Miami College of Medicine, and the University of South Florida
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 4         (4)  The council shall submit its findings and
 5  recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature no later
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12  And the title is amended as follows:
13         On page 2, line 6, after the semicolon,
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16         requiring the Agency for Health Care
17         Administration to create a Medicaid Physician
18         Upper-Payment-Limit Council; providing purposes
19         of the council; providing for council
20         membership; requiring that the council annually
21         submit its findings and recommendations to the
22         Governor and the Legislature;
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