Purpose


The purpose of the proposed rule amendment is to incorporate by reference in rule Update January 2007 to the Florida Medicaid Visual Services Coverage and Limitations Handbook. The handbook update includes Medicaid coverage for eyeglasses for recipients age 21 and older, which the Legislature reinstated effective July 2006. The handbook also contains revisions in provider enrollment policies due to the National Provider Identifier (NPI). The effect will be to incorporate by reference in the rule Update January 2007 to the Florida Medicaid Visual 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 Visual Services Coverage and Limitations Handbook update was effective July 2006. We changed the effective date to January 2007.