Florida Senate - 2009                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS/CS/CS/SB 1986, 1st Eng.
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Peaden moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 440 and 441
    4  insert:
    5         Section 4. Subsection (6) of section 395.003, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         395.003 Licensure; denial, suspension, and revocation.—
    8         (6) A No specialty hospital may not shall provide any
    9  service or regularly serve any population group beyond those
   10  services or groups specified in its license. A specialty
   11  licensed children’s hospital that is authorized to provide
   12  pediatric cardiac catheterization and pediatric open heart
   13  surgery services may provide cardiovascular service to adults
   14  who, as children, were previously served by the hospital for
   15  congenital heart disease, or to those patients who are referred
   16  for a specialized procedure only for congenital heart disease by
   17  an adult hospital, without obtaining additional licensure as a
   18  provider of adult cardiovascular services. The agency may
   19  request documentation as needed to support patient selection and
   20  treatment. This subsection does not apply to a specialty
   21  licensed children’s hospital that is already licensed to provide
   22  adult cardiovascular services.
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   24  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   25         And the title is amended as follows:
   26         Delete line 12
   27  and insert:
   28         certain circumstances; amending s. 395.003, F.S.;
   29         authorizing a specialty-licensed children’s hospital
   30         to provide cardiology services to adults for
   31         congenital heart disease under certain circumstances
   32         without obtaining additional licensure as a provider
   33         of adult cardiology services; providing an exception;
   34         amending s. 400.471, F.S.;