Bill > S0694

This bill: 1. Authorizes any state agency or department involved in providing health, social, or human services to make payments for medical assistance for certain persons diagnosed with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) who meet specific income and health criteria. 2. Requires Medicaid recipients enrolled in certain home and community-based service Medicaid waivers (Traumatic Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Waiver, Adult Cystic Fibrosis Waiver, and Project AIDS Care Waiver) to be transitioned into the long-term care managed care program by January 1, 2018. It also requires the agency to seek federal approval to terminate these waiver programs once all eligible Medicaid recipients have transitioned. 3. Makes various changes to the Medicaid program's cost-effective purchasing of health care, including expanding home delivery of pharmacy products, limiting drugs prescribed to treat erectile dysfunction, and implementing a Medicaid behavioral drug management system. 4. Allows the Agency for Health Care Administration to seek federal waivers as necessary to implement these provisions. The bill aims to consolidate and streamline certain Medicaid waiver programs to improve cost-effectiveness and care management for Medicaid recipients.

Budget and Finance, Health and Social Services

Health Policy (Senate)

http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/694