Bill Text: FL S0918 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Newborns/Screening [SPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Health Regulation [S0918 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S0918-Introduced.html

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Florida Senate - 2010                                     SB 918 
 
By Senator Detert 
23-00779A-10                                           2010918__ 
1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to the screening of newborns; amending 
3         s. 383.14, F.S.; authorizing the Department of Health 
4         to charge a fee for each live birth to cover the 
5         administrative costs incurred in providing for 
6         followup evaluation of abnormal screening results; 
7         deleting a requirement that the department certify the 
8         annual costs of the newborn screening program in its 
9         legislative budget request; requiring that the 
10         department be reimbursed by Medicaid for newborn 
11         screening tests and followup reevaluations as a 
12         covered benefit under Medicaid; requiring health 
13         insurance policies and health maintenance contracts, 
14         except for supplemental policies, to compensate the 
15         department for newborn screening tests at the Medicaid 
16         rate; providing an effective date. 
17 
18  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
19 
20         Section 1. Paragraph (g) of subsection (3) of section 
21  383.14, Florida Statutes, is amended, and paragraph (i) is added 
22  to that subsection, to read: 
23         383.14 Screening for metabolic disorders, other hereditary 
24  and congenital disorders, and environmental risk factors.— 
25         (3) DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH; POWERS AND DUTIES.—The department 
26  shall administer and provide certain services to implement the 
27  provisions of this section and shall: 
28         (g) Have the authority to charge and collect fees for the 
29  administration of the newborn screening program authorized in 
30  this section, as follows: 
31         1. a fee not to exceed $15 per year will be charged for 
32  each live birth, as recorded by the Office of Vital Statistics, 
33  occurring in a hospital licensed under part I of chapter 395 or 
34  a birth center licensed under s. 383.305 for purposes of 
35  administering the newborn screening program authorized in this 
36  section per year. The department shall calculate the annual 
37  assessment for each hospital and birth center, and this 
38  assessment must be paid in equal amounts quarterly. Quarterly, 
39  the department shall generate and mail to each hospital and 
40  birth center a statement of the amount due. Administrative costs 
41  that are incurred by the department in providing for followup 
42  evaluation of abnormal screening results, including the costs of 
43  confirmatory testing, shall be paid from this fee. 
44         2. As part of the department’s legislative budget request 
45  prepared pursuant to chapter 216, the department shall submit a 
46  certification by the department’s inspector general, or the 
47  director of auditing within the inspector general’s office, of 
48  the annual costs of the uniform testing and reporting procedures 
49  of the newborn screening program. In certifying the annual 
50  costs, the department’s inspector general or the director of 
51  auditing within the inspector general’s office shall calculate 
52  the direct costs of the uniform testing and reporting 
53  procedures, including applicable administrative costs. 
54  Administrative costs shall be limited to those department costs 
55  which are reasonably and directly associated with the 
56  administration of the uniform testing and reporting procedures 
57  of the newborn screening program. 
58         (i) Be reimbursed by the Medicaid Program Office at the 
59  Medicaid rate for newborn screening tests, and any medically 
60  necessary followup reevaluations leading to a diagnosis, as a 
61  covered benefit under Medicaid. For a Medicaid patient enrolled 
62  in a health maintenance organization, the department shall be 
63  reimbursed directly by the Medicaid Program Office at the 
64  Medicaid rate. These services are not considered covered 
65  services for purposes of establishing the payment rate for 
66  Medicaid health maintenance organizations. All health insurance 
67  policies and health maintenance contracts as provided under ss. 
68  627.6416, 627.6579, and 641.31(30), except for supplemental 
69  policies, shall compensate the department for newborn screening 
70  tests at the Medicaid rate. 
71 
72  All provisions of this subsection must be coordinated with the 
73  provisions and plans established under this chapter, chapter 
74  411, and Pub. L. No. 99-457. 
75         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.