Florida Senate - 2015                              CS for SB 340
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Appropriations; and Senator Grimsley
       
       
       
       
       
       576-03799-15                                           2015340c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to crisis stabilization services;
    3         amending s. 394.9082, F.S.; requiring the Department
    4         of Children and Families to develop standards and
    5         protocols for the collection, storage, transmittal,
    6         and analysis of utilization data from public receiving
    7         facilities; defining the term “public receiving
    8         facility”; requiring the department to require
    9         compliance by managing entities by a specified date;
   10         requiring a managing entity to require public
   11         receiving facilities in its provider network to submit
   12         certain data within specified timeframes; requiring
   13         managing entities to reconcile data to ensure
   14         accuracy; requiring managing entities to submit
   15         certain data to the department within specified
   16         timeframes; requiring the department to create a
   17         statewide database; requiring the department to adopt
   18         rules; requiring the department to submit an annual
   19         report to the Governor and the Legislature; providing
   20         an appropriation; providing an effective date.
   21          
   22  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   23  
   24         Section 1. Present subsections (10) and (11) of section
   25  394.9082, Florida Statutes, are renumbered as subsections (11)
   26  and (12), respectively, and a new subsection (10) is added to
   27  that section, to read:
   28         394.9082 Behavioral health managing entities.—
   29         (10) CRISIS STABILIZATION SERVICES UTILIZATION DATABASE.
   30  The department shall develop, implement, and maintain standards
   31  under which a managing entity shall collect utilization data
   32  from all public receiving facilities situated within its
   33  geographic service area. As used in this subsection, the term
   34  “public receiving facility” means an entity that meets the
   35  licensure requirements of and is designated by the department to
   36  operate as a public receiving facility under s. 394.875 and that
   37  is operating as a licensed crisis stabilization unit.
   38         (a) The department shall develop standards and protocols
   39  for managing entities and public receiving facilities to use in
   40  the collection, storage, transmittal, and analysis of data. The
   41  standards and protocols must allow for compatibility of data and
   42  data transmittal between public receiving facilities, managing
   43  entities, and the department for the implementation and
   44  requirements of this subsection. The department shall require
   45  managing entities contracted under this section to comply with
   46  this subsection by August 1, 2015.
   47         (b) A managing entity shall require a public receiving
   48  facility within its provider network to submit data to the
   49  managing entity, in real time or at least daily, for:
   50         1. All admissions and discharges of clients receiving
   51  public receiving facility services who qualify as indigent, as
   52  defined in s. 394.4787; and
   53         2. Current active census of total licensed beds, the number
   54  of beds purchased by the department, the number of clients
   55  qualifying as indigent occupying those beds, and the total
   56  number of unoccupied licensed beds regardless of funding.
   57         (c) A managing entity shall require a public receiving
   58  facility within its provider network to submit data, on a
   59  monthly basis, to the managing entity which aggregates the daily
   60  data submitted under paragraph (b). The managing entity shall
   61  reconcile the data in the monthly submission to the data
   62  received by the managing entity under paragraph (b) to check for
   63  consistency. If the monthly aggregate data submitted by a public
   64  receiving facility under this paragraph is inconsistent with the
   65  daily data submitted under paragraph (b), the managing entity
   66  shall consult with the public receiving facility to make
   67  corrections as necessary to ensure accurate data.
   68         (d) A managing entity shall require a public receiving
   69  facility within its provider network to submit data, on an
   70  annual basis, to the managing entity which aggregates the data
   71  submitted and reconciled under paragraph (c). The managing
   72  entity shall reconcile the data in the annual submission to the
   73  data received and reconciled by the managing entity under
   74  paragraph (c) to check for consistency. If the annual aggregate
   75  data submitted by a public receiving facility under this
   76  paragraph is inconsistent with the data received and reconciled
   77  under paragraph (c), the managing entity shall consult with the
   78  public receiving facility to make corrections as necessary to
   79  ensure accurate data.
   80         (e) After ensuring accurate data under paragraphs (c) and
   81  (d), the managing entity shall submit the data to the department
   82  on a monthly and an annual basis. The department shall create a
   83  statewide database for the data described under paragraph (b)
   84  and submitted under this paragraph for the purpose of analyzing
   85  the payments for and the use of crisis stabilization services
   86  funded by the Baker Act on a statewide basis and on an
   87  individual public receiving facility basis.
   88         (f) The department shall adopt rules to administer this
   89  subsection.
   90         (g) The department shall submit a report by January 31,
   91  2016, and annually thereafter, to the Governor, the President of
   92  the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives
   93  which provides details on the implementation of this subsection,
   94  including the status of the data collection process and a
   95  detailed analysis of the data collected under this subsection.
   96         Section 2. For the 2015-2016 fiscal year, the sum of
   97  $175,000 in nonrecurring funds is appropriated from the Alcohol,
   98  Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Trust Fund to the Department of
   99  Children and Families to implement this act.
  100         Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.