FL S0340

Requires the Department of Children and Families to develop standards and protocols for collecting, storing, transmitting, and analyzing utilization data from public receiving facilities (licensed crisis stabilization units)

Mandates managing entities collect real-time or daily data on admissions, discharges, and bed census information for indigent clients from public receiving facilities within their networks

Establishes monthly and annual data reconciliation requirements between public receiving facilities and managing entities to ensure accuracy

Creates a statewide database to analyze payments and utilization of Baker Act-funded crisis stabilization services, with compliance required by August 1, 2015

Appropriates $175,000 in nonrecurring funds from the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Trust Fund and requires annual reports to the Governor and Legislature beginning January 31, 2016