(LATE FILED)Amendment
Bill No. 1880
Amendment No. 297821
CHAMBER ACTION
Senate House
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1Representative(s) R. Garcia offered the following:
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3     Amendment to Amendment (824249) (with title amendment)
4Remove lines 945-962 and insert:
5     (g)  Conduct systematic reviews of clinic billings to
6ensure that the billings are not fraudulent or unlawful. Upon
7discovery of an unlawful charge, the medical director or clinic
8director shall take immediate corrective action. If the clinic
9performs only the technical component of magnetic resonance
10imaging, static radiographs, computed tomography, or positron
11emission tomography, and provides the professional
12interpretation of such services, in a fixed facility that is
13accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of
14Healthcare Organizations or the Accreditation Association for
15Ambulatory Health Care, and the American College of Radiology;
16and if, in the preceding quarter, the percentage of scans
17performed by that clinic which was billed to all personal injury
18protection insurance carriers was less than 15 percent, the
19chief financial officer of the clinic may, in a written
20acknowledgment provided to the agency, assume the responsibility
21for the conduct of the systematic reviews of clinic billings to
22ensure that the billings are not fraudulent or unlawful.
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25     Remove lines 1853-1854 and insert:
26the act; providing definitions; amending s. 324.171,
27F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the
28act; amending s. 400.9935, F.S.; revising provisions
29relating to systematic reviews of billings of certain
30clinics; amending ss. 409.901, 409.910, 456.057,
31456.072, 626.9541,


CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.