Bill Text: FL S0282 | 2012 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Health Care Transition/Adolescents and Young Adults/Special Health Care Needs

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Failed) 2012-03-09 - Died in Messages [S0282 Detail]

Download: Florida-2012-S0282-Comm_Sub.html

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       Florida Senate - 2012                              CS for SB 282
       
       
       
       By the Committee on Health Regulation; and Senators Wise and
       Storms
       
       
       
       588-03228-12                                           2012282c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to health care transition programs and
    3         services for adolescents and young adults who have
    4         special health care needs; providing legislative
    5         intent; establishing a program within the Division of
    6         Children’s Medical Services Network in the Department
    7         of Health to oversee transitional services in this
    8         state using existing state plans in order to implement
    9         health care transition programs for adolescents and
   10         young adults who have special health care needs;
   11         specifying responsibilities of the program with
   12         respect to the oversight, implementation, and
   13         coordination of the program; providing an effective
   14         date.
   15  
   16  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   17  
   18         Section 1. Legislative intent; health care transition
   19  programs and services for adolescents and young adults who have
   20  special health care needs.—
   21         (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide a
   22  strategic and comprehensive approach to the development and
   23  implementation of effective health care transition programs and
   24  services for adolescents and young adults who have special
   25  health care needs. The Health Care Transition Services Task
   26  Force for Youth and Young Adults with Disabilities developed a
   27  statewide plan to promote the development of such health care
   28  transition services, in accordance with chapter 2008-211, Laws
   29  of Florida, and outlined the plan in its subsequent report.
   30         (2) A program called the Florida Health And Transition
   31  Services (FloridaHATS) is established within the Division of
   32  Children’s Medical Services Network to oversee transitional
   33  services in this state using existing state plans in order to
   34  implement effective transition services for adolescents and
   35  young adults who have special health care needs. As used in this
   36  section, the term “adolescents and young adults who have special
   37  health care needs” means individuals who are 12 through 26 years
   38  of age; who have chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or
   39  emotional conditions; and who require health care or related
   40  services of a type or amount beyond that which is generally
   41  required by adolescents or young adults. FloridaHATS shall be
   42  responsible for:
   43         (a) Developing and overseeing a planning and implementation
   44  process and the necessary guides for use by community providers
   45  and organizations in developing coordinated systems of services
   46  for adolescents and young adults who have special health care
   47  needs.
   48         (b) Developing and disseminating resource guides that
   49  outline the various public and private health care financing
   50  options, including commercial insurance, and the respective
   51  health care benefits.
   52         (c) Coordinating with educational institutions, including
   53  medical centers, to identify and make available for health care
   54  providers existing training programs regarding the principles,
   55  objectives, and methods for the successful transition of
   56  adolescents and young adults who have special health care needs
   57  to adult health care providers.
   58         (d) Maintaining and updating the FloridaHATS’s website with
   59  web-based materials related to health care transition services
   60  which can be used by adolescents and young adults who have
   61  special health care needs and their families, providers, and
   62  others involved in health care transition.
   63         (e) Collecting and disseminating information in specific
   64  clinical areas concerning evidence-based practices and best
   65  practices for providing health care transition services for
   66  adolescents and young adults who have special health care needs.
   67         (f) Providing technical assistance to communities,
   68  providers, and organizations that are involved in the
   69  development and implementation of systems of services for
   70  adolescents and young adults who have special health care needs.
   71         (g) Developing and disseminating quality improvement and
   72  evaluation components to other health care providers. The
   73  quality improvement and evaluation components must include a
   74  common or comparable set of performance measures for all
   75  entities that provide health care transition services for
   76  adolescents and young adults who have special health care needs.
   77         (h) Establishing a network of experts in the fields of
   78  pediatric and adolescent medicine, adult medicine, and allied
   79  health to provide technical assistance and recommendations
   80  regarding best practices and policy guidance in health care
   81  transition.
   82         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.