Florida Senate - 2018                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SPB 2506
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/01/2018           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Brandes) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 303 and 304
    4  insert:
    5         Section 5. Paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section
    6  409.909, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         409.909 Statewide Medicaid Residency Program.—
    8         (2) On or before September 15 of each year, the agency
    9  shall calculate an allocation fraction to be used for
   10  distributing funds to participating hospitals and to qualifying
   11  institutions as defined in paragraph (c). On or before the final
   12  business day of each quarter of a state fiscal year, the agency
   13  shall distribute to each participating hospital one-fourth of
   14  that hospital’s annual allocation calculated under subsection
   15  (4). The allocation fraction for each participating hospital is
   16  based on the hospital’s number of full-time equivalent residents
   17  and the amount of its Medicaid payments. As used in this
   18  section, the term:
   19         (c) “Qualifying institution” means a federally Qualified
   20  Health Center holding an Accreditation Council for Graduate
   21  Medical Education institutional accreditation or a substance
   22  abuse treatment facility licensed under chapter 397 which has
   23  housed residents and fellows since 2013.
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   26  And the title is amended as follows:
   27         Between lines 19 and 20
   28  insert:
   29         amending s. 409.909, F.S.; revising the definition of
   30         the term “qualifying institution” to include certain
   31         licensed substance abuse treatment facilities for
   32         purposes of the Statewide Medicaid Residency Program;