NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on July 21, 2011, the Agency for Health Care Administration, received a petition for for “Revised Petition for Variance – Florida Medicaid Developmental Disabilities Waiver Services Coverage and Limitations Handbook Page 1-4,” which is treated as a Petition for Variance from Rule 59G-13.083, Florida Administrative Code (“Petition”). The Petition was filed by the National Deaf Academy, LLC d/b/a National Deaf Academy (“NDA”) on behalf of resident, A.O. Rule 59G-13.083, Florida Administrative Code, entitled Developmental Disabilities Waiver Services, requires that all developmental disabilities waiver services providers enrolled in the Medicaid program must be in compliance with the Florida Medicaid Developmental Disabilities Waiver Services Coverage and Limitations Handbook (“DD Handbook”), May 2010, incorporated by reference, and the Florida Medicaid Provider Reimbursement Handbook, CMS-1500, which is incorporated by reference in Rule 59G-4.001, Florida Administrative Code. The NDA seeks a variance from the portion of the DD Handbook, which limits community-based recipients with developmental disabilities ability to receive DD waiver services to residential habilitation centers, licensed in accordance with Chapter 393, Florida Statutes, and any other type of facility not listed in the Handbook, having a capacity of 16 or more persons if the recipient has continuously resided at the facility since August 1, 2001 or prior to this date.
A copy of the Petition for Variance or Waiver may be obtained by contacting: Richard J. Shoop, Agency Clerk, Agency for Health Care Administration, 2727 Mahan Drive, Building 3, Mail Station 3, Tallahassee, Florida 32308. Written comments on the Petition may be submitted to the Agency Clerk at the address above within fourteen (14) days after publication of this notice.