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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 228

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11  Senator Gutman moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 6, between lines 15 and 16,

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17         Section 6.  Subsection (7) is added to section 627.419,

18  Florida Statutes, to read:

19         627.419  Construction policies.--

20         (9)  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any

21  health insurance policy, health care services plan, or other

22  contract which provides anatomic pathology or clinical

23  laboratory coverage, benefits or services which are performed

24  or directed by pathologists licensed pursuant to chapter 458

25  or chapter 459 shall provide for payment to the provider for

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

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 2  And the title is amended as follows:

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 6         amending s. 627.419, F.S., providing for

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