SENATE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. HB 329
    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 842532
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11  Senator Wise moved the following amendment to amendment
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14         Senate Amendment 
15         On page 35, between lines 13 and 14,
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18         (g)  Establishment of a Level I or Level II program
19  located in a new hospital that is in the location of an
20  existing hospital with an adult open-heart-surgery program
21  where the existing hospital and adult open-heart-surgery
22  program are being relocated to a replacement hospital and the
23  replacement hospital will be a closed-staff model. In
24  determining compliance with the minimum threshold requirements
25  of paragraphs (b) and (c), the agency shall consider the cases
26  treated in the hospital being relocated during the most recent
27  12-month period by physicians that were not employees of the
28  closed-staff model employer.
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