The Florida Senate

408.085  Comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation hospitals; special provisions.--Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, the board shall appoint a technical advisory panel to develop and implement by rule a proxy measure for case mix for comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation hospitals prior to the imposition of budget review or penalties on comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation hospitals under this chapter. Such case mix proxy measure shall take into account items such as, but not limited to, the changes from year to year in the weighted average cost per admission by program in each comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation hospital and, when available, other case mix or severity of illness indicators. The proxy for case mix for comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation hospitals shall be implemented on or before July 1, 1993. The review and approval of comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation hospital budgets pursuant to this chapter shall apply to comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation hospital budgets for fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 1993.

History.--s. 74, ch. 92-33.