The purpose and effect of the proposed rule is to incorporate changes to the Florida Title XIX Outpatient Hospital Reimbursement plan (the Plan) payment methodology, effective July 1, 2006, to provide the following changes in compliance with the 2006-07 General Appropriations Act, House Bill 5001, Specific Appropriation 217. 1. $7,704,802 is provided to eliminate the outpatient reimbursement ceilings for hospitals whose charity care and Medicaid days as a percentage of total adjusted hospital days equals or exceeds 11 percent. For any public hospital that does not qualify for the elimination of the outpatient ceilings under this section, the public hospital shall be exempt from the outpatient reimbursement ceilings contingent on the public hospital or local governmental entity providing the required state match. The Agency shall use the average of the 2000, 2001 and 2002 audited DSH data available as of March 1, 2006. In the event the agency does not have the prescribed three years of audited DSH data for a hospital, the agency shall use the average of the audited DSH data for 2000, 2001 and 2002 that are available. 2. $387,284 is provided to eliminate the outpatient reimbursement ceilings for hospitals that have a minimum of ten licensed Level II Neonatal Intensive Care Beds and are located in Trauma Services Area 2. 3. $11,223,355 is provided to eliminate the outpatient reimbursement ceilings for hospitals whose Medicaid days, as a percentage of total hospital days, exceed 7.3 percent, and are designated or provisional trauma centers. This provision shall apply to all hospitals that are designated or provisional trauma centers on July 1, 2006 or become a designated or provisional trauma center during State Fiscal Year 2006-2007. The agency shall use the average of the 2000, 2001 and 2002 audited DSH data available as of March 1, 2006. In the event the agency does not have the prescribed three years of audited DSH data for a hospital, the agency shall use the average of the audited DSH data for 2000, 2001 and 2002 that are available.