Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1736
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Budget (Richter) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 3593 and 3594
    4  insert:
    5         Section 90. Paragraph (h) of subsection (3) of section
    6  456.053, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         456.053 Financial arrangements between referring health
    8  care providers and providers of health care services.—
    9         (3) DEFINITIONS.—For the purpose of this section, the word,
   10  phrase, or term:
   11         (h) “Group practice” means a group of two or more health
   12  care providers legally organized as a partnership, professional
   13  corporation, or similar association:
   14         1. In which each health care provider who is a member of
   15  the group provides substantially the full range of services
   16  which the health care provider routinely provides, including
   17  medical care, consultation, diagnosis, or treatment, through the
   18  joint use of shared office space, facilities, equipment, and
   19  personnel;
   20         2. For which substantially all of the services of the
   21  health care providers who are members of the group are provided
   22  through the group and are billed in the name of the group and
   23  amounts so received are treated as receipts of the group; and
   24         3. In which the overhead expenses of and the income from
   25  the practice are distributed in accordance with methods
   26  previously determined by members of the group; and.
   27         4. That provides radiation therapy services, including the
   28  full range of radiation therapy services, such that no single
   29  type of cancer, as a primary or secondary diagnosis and as
   30  described by the International Statistical Classification of
   31  Diseases, constitutes 40 percent or more of the group’s cases
   32  for professional and technical radiation therapy services, and
   33  the health care providers within the group who refer patients
   34  for radiation therapy services do not own 50 percent or more of
   35  the group practice. As used in this subparagraph, the term
   36  “case” means an individual patient’s radiation treatment course.
   37  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   38         And the title is amended as follows:
   39         Delete line 309
   40  and insert:
   41         applicants; amending s. 456.053, F.S.; redefining the
   42         term “group practice” to include certain groups that
   43         provide radiation therapy services; amending s.
   44         483.035, F.S.; providing for a