| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to appropriations; providing an |
| 3 | appropriation to the Grants and Donations Trust Fund |
| 4 | within the Agency for Health Care Administration for use |
| 5 | in the Medicaid program and Low-Income Pool Program; |
| 6 | providing a contingency for the transfer of funds from the |
| 7 | low-income pool; providing for a portion of the |
| 8 | appropriation to be used as the state match for the |
| 9 | disproportionate share hospital programs and as payments |
| 10 | to Shands Teaching Hospital to continue the original |
| 11 | purpose of providing health care services to indigent |
| 12 | patients through Shands HealthCare System; providing an |
| 13 | effective date. |
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| 15 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 17 | Section 1. (1) For the 2010-2011 fiscal year only, the |
| 18 | sum of $9,673,569 of recurring funds is appropriated from the |
| 19 | General Revenue Fund to the Agency for Health Care |
| 20 | Administration as grants and aids for the Shands Teaching |
| 21 | Hospital. Such funds shall be primarily designated for transfer |
| 22 | to the Grants and Donations Trust Fund within the Agency for |
| 23 | Health Care Administration for use in the Medicaid program or |
| 24 | Low-Income Pool Program. |
| 25 | (2) Of the funds appropriated in this section, $3,820,670 |
| 26 | may be used in the Low-Income Pool Program or as funding to buy |
| 27 | back the Medicaid inpatient and outpatient trend adjustments |
| 28 | applied to Shands HealthCare System's individual hospital rates |
| 29 | and other Medicaid reductions to their rates up to the actual |
| 30 | Medicaid inpatient and outpatient costs. The transfer of the |
| 31 | funds from the low-income pool is contingent upon another local |
| 32 | government or health care taxing district providing an |
| 33 | equivalent amount of funds to be used in the Low-Income Pool |
| 34 | Program. |
| 35 | (3) Of the funds appropriated in this section, $5,852,899 |
| 36 | may be used as the state match for the disproportionate share |
| 37 | hospital programs funded in Specific Appropriation 190 of |
| 38 | chapter 2010-152, Laws of Florida. |
| 39 | (4) To the extent that the Agency for Health Care |
| 40 | Administration cannot use the full amount of the funds |
| 41 | appropriated in this section as directed in subsections (2) and |
| 42 | (3), the remaining funds may be used secondarily for payments to |
| 43 | Shands Teaching Hospital to continue the original purpose of |
| 44 | providing health care services to indigent patients through |
| 45 | Shands HealthCare System. |
| 46 | Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law. |