Purpose


The purpose of these rule amendments is to incorporate by reference updates January 2007 to the Florida Medicaid Independent Laboratory Services Coverage and Limitations Handbook and the Florida Medicaid Physician Services Coverage and Limitations Handbook. The handbooks were revised to include Medicaid’s genetic testing policies. The effect will be to incorporate by reference in rule updates January 2007 to the Florida Medicaid Independent Laboratory Services Coverage and Limitations Handbook and the Florida Medicaid Physician Services Coverage and Limitations Handbook. In the Notice of Rule Development that was published in Vol. 32, No. 31, Florida Administrative Weekly, on August 4, 2006, we stated that the Florida Medicaid Independent Laboratory Services Coverage and Limitations Handbook and the Florida Medicaid Physician Services Coverage and Limitations Handbook updates were effective July 2006. We changed the effective date to January 2007.