| 1 | Representative(s) A. Gibson offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with directory and title amendments) |
| 4 | Between line(s) 930 and 931, insert: |
| 5 | (ii) Implement a plan to establish up to four small or |
| 6 | specialty provider service networks in the pilot area. The |
| 7 | agency shall establish criteria and set standards for these |
| 8 | provider service networks and under certain conditions shall be |
| 9 | authorized to provide start up funding, technical assistance for |
| 10 | the development and start up of grassroots organizations that |
| 11 | seek to become a provider service networks, a guarantee of state |
| 12 | solvency, access to risk adjusted rates that will create some |
| 13 | reasonable expectation that these entities would be able to |
| 14 | become risk bearing plans in a timely matter. The small or |
| 15 | specialty provider service networks shall be approved for the |
| 16 | purposes of creating choice and network options for adversely |
| 17 | affected subgroups, improving minority access networks and |
| 18 | facilitation of reform plans in small rural counties. The |
| 19 | agency may allow these plans to seek waivers of requirements |
| 20 | that form an impediment to the successful start up and operation |
| 21 | of these plans. |
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| 25 | Between line(s) 57 and 58 and insert: |
| 26 | providing for implementation of a plan to establish up to four |
| 27 | small or specialty provider service networks |