Bill Amendment: FL S1748 | 2013 | Regular Session

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Bill Title: Medicaid Eligibility

Status: 2013-05-03 - Died in Appropriations [S1748 Detail]

Download: Florida-2013-S1748-Children_Families_and_Elder_Affairs_Committee_Amendment_Delete_All_832814.html

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       Florida Senate - 2013                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1748
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/15/2013           .                                
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       The Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (Dean)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsection (1) and paragraphs (a) and (b) of
    6  Subsection (8) of section 409.902, Florida Statutes, is amended
    7  to read:
    8         409.902 Designated single state agency; payment
    9  requirements; program title; release of medical records.—
   10         (1) The Agency for Health Care Administration is designated
   11  as the single state agency authorized to make payments for
   12  medical assistance and related services under Title XIX of the
   13  Social Security Act. These payments shall be made, subject to
   14  any limitations or directions provided for in the General
   15  Appropriations Act, only for services included in the program,
   16  shall be made only on behalf of eligible individuals, and shall
   17  be made only to qualified providers in accordance with federal
   18  requirements for Title XIX of the Social Security Act and the
   19  provisions of state law. This program of medical assistance is
   20  designated the “Medicaid program.” The Department of Children
   21  and Families Family Services is responsible for Medicaid
   22  eligibility determinations, including, but not limited to,
   23  policy, rules, reviewing financial transactions affecting
   24  eligibility, and the agreement with the Social Security
   25  Administration for Medicaid eligibility determinations for
   26  Supplemental Security Income recipients, as well as the actual
   27  determination of eligibility. As a condition of Medicaid
   28  eligibility, subject to federal approval, the Agency for Health
   29  Care Administration and the Department of Children and Families
   30  Family Services shall ensure that each recipient of Medicaid
   31  consents to the release of her or his medical records to the
   32  Agency for Health Care Administration and the Medicaid Fraud
   33  Control Unit of the Department of Legal Affairs.
   34         (8) The department shall implement the following project
   35  governance structure until the system is implemented:
   36         (a) The Secretary of Children and Families Family Services
   37  shall have overall responsibility for the project.
   38         (b) The project shall be governed by an executive steering
   39  committee composed of three department staff members appointed
   40  by the Secretary of Children and Families Family Services; three
   41  agency staff members, including at least two state Medicaid
   42  program staff members, appointed by the Secretary of the Agency
   43  for Health Care Administration; one staff member from Children’s
   44  Medical Services within the Department of Health appointed by
   45  the Surgeon General; and a representative from the Florida
   46  Healthy Kids Corporation.
   47         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.
   48  
   49  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   50         And the title is amended as follows:
   51         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   52  and insert:
   53                        A bill to be entitled                      
   54         An act relating to Medicaid eligibility; amending s.
   55         409.902, F.S.; requiring the Department of Children
   56         and Families to review financial transactions
   57         affecting eligibility; making technical corrections;
   58         providing an effective date.