Purpose
The purpose of this rule amendment is to incorporate by reference update March 2007 to the Florida Medicaid Physician Services Coverage and Limitations Handbook. The handbook was revised to include the Medicaid Hospitalist Program policies. The Medicaid Hospitalist Program is being implemented in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties. The effect will be to incorporate by reference in rule update March 2007 to Florida Medicaid Physician Services Coverage and Limitations Handbook.
In the Notice of Rule Development published in the Vol. 32, No. 29, July 21, 2006 issue of the Florida Administrative Weekly, we stated that the Florida Medicaid Physician Services Coverage and Limitations Handbook update was effective September 2006. We changed the effective date to March 2007.