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    Florida Senate - 2007                            CS for SB 430

    By the Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; and
    Senators Saunders and Lynn




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  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to mental health facilities;

  3         amending s. 394.461, F.S.; requiring mental

  4         health and treatment facilities designated by

  5         the Department of Children and Family Services

  6         to report certain financial and health service

  7         data to the department; providing a definition;

  8         providing reporting deadlines; providing a

  9         report by the department; providing an

10         effective date.

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12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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14         Section 1.  Present subsection (4) of section 394.461,

15  Florida Statutes, is renumbered as subsection (5), and a new

16  subsection (4) is added to that section, to read:

17         394.461  Designation of receiving and treatment

18  facilities.--The department is authorized to designate and

19  monitor receiving facilities and treatment facilities and may

20  suspend or withdraw such designation for failure to comply

21  with this part and rules adopted under this part.  Unless

22  designated by the department, facilities are not permitted to

23  hold or treat involuntary patients under this part.

24         (4)(a)  A facility designated as a public receiving or

25  treatment facility under this section shall report to the

26  department on an annual basis the following data, unless these

27  data are currently being submitted to the Agency for Health

28  Care Administration:

29         1.  Number of licensed beds.

30         2.  Number of contract days.

31         3.  Number of admissions by payer class and diagnoses.

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 1         4.  Number of bed days by payer class.

 2         5.  Average length of stay by payer class.

 3         6.  Total revenues by payer class.

 4         (b)  For the purposes of this subsection, "payer class"

 5  means Medicare, Medicare HMO, Medicaid, Medicaid HMO,

 6  private-pay health insurance, private-pay health maintenance

 7  organization, private preferred provider organization, the

 8  Department of Children and Family Services, other government

 9  programs, self-pay patients, and charity care.

10         (c)  The data required under this subsection shall be

11  submitted to the department no later than 90 days following

12  the end of the facility's fiscal year. A facility designated

13  as a public receiving or treatment facility shall submit its

14  initial report for the 6-month period ending June 30, 2008.

15         (d)  The department shall issue an annual report based

16  on the data required pursuant to this subsection. The report

17  shall include individual facilities' data, as well as

18  statewide totals. The report shall be submitted to the

19  Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the

20  House of Representatives.

21         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.

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 1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
 2                         Senate Bill 430

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 4  The committee substitute:

 5  -    Removes the provision that private facilities are
         entitled to reimbursement for Baker Act admissions.
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    -    Provides that data about Baker Act facilities is to be
 7       submitted to the Department of Children and Families
         (DCF) unless it is already being submitted to the Agency
 8       for Health Care Administration (AHCA).

 9  -    Clarifies what data is to be reported.

10  -    Makes DCF, rather than AHCA, responsible for compiling
         and publishing the data.
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