Purpose
to incorporate changes to the Florida Title XIX County Health Department Reimbursement Plan in accordance with Senate Bill 2600, 2009-10 General Appropriations Act, Specific Appropriation 212. The Florida Title XIX Payment Methodology for County Health Departments Reimbursement Plan will be amended as follows:
1. The Agency shall implement a recurring methodology in the Title XIX County Health Department Reimbursement Plan to achieve a $3,024,506 reduction. In establishing rates through the normal process, prior to including this reduction, if the unit cost is equal to or less than the unit cost used in establishing the budget, then no additional reduction in rates is necessary. In establishing rates through the normal process, prior to including this reduction, if the unit cost is greater than the unit cost used in establishing the budget, then rates shall be reduced by an amount required to achieve this reduction, but shall not be reduced below the unit cost used in establishing the budget.
2. A buy back provision for the County Health Departments to apply to their rate reduction.