Florida Senate - 2019                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 302
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  02/19/2019           .                                
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       The Committee on Health Policy (Brandes) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 36 - 55
    4  and insert:
    5         (2)(a) Subject to compliance with any applicable state and
    6  federal Medicaid requirements, a transportation network company
    7  under contract with a Medicaid managed care plan, a
    8  transportation broker under contract with a Medicaid managed
    9  care plan, a transportation broker under direct contract with
   10  the Agency for Health Care Administration, or a transportation
   11  network company that receives referrals from a transportation
   12  broker contracting with Medicaid managed care plans or the
   13  Agency for Health Care Administration may provide Medicaid
   14  nonemergency transportation services to a Medicaid recipient.
   15  The Agency for Health Care Administration shall update any
   16  regulations, policies, or other guidance, including the Non
   17  Emergency Transportation Services Coverage Policy, as necessary
   18  to reflect this authorization by October 1, 2019. Requirements
   19  for transportation network companies and transportation network
   20  company drivers may not exceed those imposed under s. 627.748,
   21  except as necessary to conform to federal Medicaid
   22  transportation requirements administered by the Agency for
   23  Health Care Administration.
   24         (b) This subsection may not be construed to expand or limit
   25  the existing transportation benefit provided to Medicaid
   26  recipients or to require a Medicaid managed care plan to
   27  contract with a transportation network company or a
   28  transportation broker.
   29         Section 2. Subsection (8) is added to section 401.25,
   30  Florida Statutes, to read:
   31         401.25 Licensure as a basic life support or an advanced
   32  life support service.—
   33         (8) At the request of an eligible plan as defined in s.
   34  409.962 which administers the nonemergency Medicaid
   35  transportation benefit, the plan’s subcontracted transportation
   36  broker, or a transportation broker that administers the
   37  nonemergency Medicaid transportation benefit for the Agency for
   38  Health Care Administration, a licensed basic life support or
   39  licensed advanced life support ambulance service may provide
   40  nonemergency Medicaid transportation in permitted ambulances in
   41  any county without obtaining a certificate of public convenience
   42  and necessity as required in paragraph (2)(d).
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   44  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   45  And the title is amended as follows:
   46         Delete lines 8 - 17
   47  and insert:
   48         requirements; requiring the Agency for Health Care
   49         Administration to update certain regulations,
   50         policies, or other guidance by a specified date;
   51         providing that the requirements for transportation
   52         network companies and transportation network company
   53         drivers may not exceed specified requirements, except
   54         as necessary to conform to federal Medicaid
   55         transportation requirements administered by the
   56         agency; providing construction; amending s. 401.25,
   57         F.S.; authorizing a licensed basic life support or
   58         licensed advanced life support ambulance service to
   59         provide nonemergency Medicaid transportation in
   60         permitted ambulances in any county at the request of a
   61         certain eligible plan; providing an effective date.