Florida Senate - 2013                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 844
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/07/2013           .                                
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       The Committee on Health Policy (Garcia) recommended the
       following:
                                                                       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (861804) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Delete lines 339 - 360
    5  and insert:
    6  recipients. If it is determined that fraud, willful
    7  misrepresentation, abuse, or a crime did not occur, the payments
    8  withheld must be paid to the provider within 14 days after such
    9  determination with interest at the rate of 10 percent a year.
   10  Any money withheld in accordance with this paragraph shall be
   11  placed in a suspended account, readily accessible to the agency,
   12  so that any payment ultimately due the provider shall be made
   13  within 14 days. Amounts not paid within 14 days accrue interest
   14  at the rate of 10 percent a year, beginning after the 14th day.
   15         (b) The agency shall deny payment, or require repayment, if
   16  the goods or services were furnished, supervised, or caused to
   17  be furnished by a person who has been suspended or terminated
   18  from the Medicaid program or Medicare program by the Federal
   19  Government or any state.
   20         (c) Overpayments owed to the agency bear interest at the
   21  rate of 10 percent per year from the date of final determination
   22  of the overpayment by the agency, and payment arrangements must
   23  be made within 30 days after the date of the final order, which
   24  is not subject to further appeal at the conclusion of legal
   25  proceedings. A provider who does not enter into or adhere to an
   26  agreed-upon repayment schedule may be terminated by the agency
   27  for nonpayment or partial payment.
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   30         And the title is amended as follows:
   31         Delete lines 379 - 381
   32  and insert:
   33         Delete lines 13 - 31
   34  and insert:
   35         409.913, F.S.; increasing the number of years a
   36         provider must keep records; revising provisions
   37         specifying grounds for terminating a provider from the
   38         program, for seeking certain remedies for violations,
   39         and for imposing certain sanctions; providing a
   40         limitation on the information the agency may consider
   41         when making a determination of overpayment; specifying
   42         the type of records a provider must present to contest
   43         an overpayment; deleting the requirement that the
   44         agency place payments withheld from a provider in a
   45         suspended account and revising when a provider must
   46         reimburse