HB 5101 Summary

• Authorizes the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to share digital and photographic records with the Agency for Health Care Administration to prevent health care fraud, with contracts requiring internal controls, audit processes, and liquidated damages of at least $5,000 per unauthorized access occurrence.

• Revises the definition of "rural hospital" to include hospitals classified as sole community hospitals under federal regulations (up to 175 licensed beds) and critical access hospitals.

• Transfers administration of Medicaid appeals from the Department of Children and Families to the Agency for Health Care Administration effective March 1, 2017, exempting these appeals from standard administrative procedure requirements.

• Expands developmental disability eligibility to include Down syndrome and Phelan-McDermid syndrome, and provides priority for waiver services to military families' children and individuals with Phelan-McDermid syndrome.

• Implements prospective payment systems for hospital outpatient services and ambulatory surgical centers effective July 1, 2017, and authorizes various Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) expansions in specified Florida counties.