Florida Senate - 2011                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 818
       
       
       
       
       
       
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             04/28/2011 02:15 PM       .                                
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       Senator Bogdanoff moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 502 - 507
    4  and insert:
    5         (a) “Pain-management clinic,” hereinafter referred to as
    6  “clinic,” means a publicly or privately owned facility where in
    7  any month a majority of patients are prescribed opioids,
    8  benzodiazepines, barbiturates, or carisoprodol, for the
    9  treatment of chronic nonmalignant pain. “Chronic nonmalignant
   10  pain” means pain unrelated to cancer or rheumatoid arthritis
   11  which persists beyond the usual course of disease or the injury
   12  that is the cause of the pain or more than 90 days after
   13  surgery. All privately owned pain-management clinics,
   14  facilities, or offices, hereinafter referred to as “clinics,”
   15  which advertise in any medium for any type of pain-management
   16  services, or employ a physician who is primarily engaged in the
   17  treatment of pain by prescribing or dispensing controlled
   18  substance medications, must register with the department unless:
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   21         And the title is amended as follows:
   22         Delete line 40
   23  and insert:
   24         their practice; amending s. 458.3265, F.S.; redefining
   25         the term “pain-management clinic” and defining the
   26         term “chronic nonmalignant pain”; revising