Agency for Health Care Administration, Medicaid

 

AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION

Medicaid

State Plan Amendment

The Agency for Health Care Administration announces that it is requesting an amendment to the Medicaid State Plan. The amendment reflects technical and editorial changes to remove obsolete language, changes in the payment methodology, and buy-back provisions for services in facilities, not publicly owned or operated, for Intermediate Care Facility for Individuals with Disabilities as authorized in the General Appropriation’s Act for State Fiscal Year 2015-2016. This amendment to the State Plan will have a federal fiscal impact with an expected increase of $260,747 in federal funds for federal fiscal year (FFY) 2014-15 and $782,241 in federal funds for FFY 2015-16. The effective date for this amendment will be July 1, 2015.

A more detailed description of the proposed changes to the payment methodology will be published in the Florida Administrative Register in the notice of rule development.

Interested parties may contact the following staff for further information: Rydell Samuel, Medicaid Program Finance, located at 2727 Mahan Drive, Mail Stop 23, Tallahassee, Florida 32308-5407, by telephone: [phone] or by email: [e-mail].