Florida Senate - 2017                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 240
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/22/2017           .                                
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
       (Powell) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 52 - 58
    4  and insert:
    5         (e) By January 1, 2018, submit an appropriate federal
    6  waiver or a waiver amendment to the Centers for Medicare and
    7  Medicaid Services, the United States Department of Health and
    8  Human Services, or any other designated federal entity to
    9  incorporate a pilot program for direct primary care agreements,
   10  as defined in s. 456.0625, bundled with a managed care plan for
   11  Medicaid recipients in Region 6, as described in s. 409.966(2),
   12  who are 18 years of age or older and who do not receive
   13  supplemental security income, within the Medicaid Managed
   14  Assistance component of the Statewide Medicaid Managed Care
   15  program. A Medicaid recipient may be offered this opportunity on
   16  a voluntary basis and must be given the same rights and
   17  responsibilities as other Medicaid recipients enrolled in the
   18  Statewide Medicaid Managed Care program. A Medicaid recipient
   19  who participates in the pilot program may not be charged a
   20  copayment, a premium, coinsurance, or other cost sharing in
   21  excess of what is allowed in the Statewide Medicaid Managed Care
   22  program. Before seeking a waiver, the agency must provide public
   23  notice and the opportunity for public comment in Region 6 and
   24  include public feedback in the waiver application. The time
   25  period for public comment must end no sooner than 30 days after
   26  the completion of the public meeting in Region 6.
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   29  And the title is amended as follows:
   30         Delete lines 6 - 9
   31  and insert:
   32         the agency to submit, by a specified date, a federal
   33         waiver or waiver amendment to one of specified federal
   34         entities to incorporate a pilot program for direct
   35         primary care agreements bundled with a managed care
   36         plan for certain Medicaid recipients in a specified
   37         region; providing requirements for the pilot program
   38         as to Medicaid recipients; providing that Medicaid
   39         recipients in the pilot program may not be charged a
   40         copayment, premium, coinsurance, or other cost sharing
   41         in excess of specified amounts; requiring the agency
   42         to provide public notice, receive public comments, and
   43         include public feedback in the waiver application;
   44         creating s.