Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1198
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  01/31/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Health Regulation (Diaz de la Portilla)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 252 - 263
    4  and insert:
    5         g. The clinic is wholly owned and operated by one or more
    6  board-eligible or board-certified anesthesiologists,
    7  physiatrists, psychiatrists, rheumatologists, or neurologists;
    8  or
    9         h. The clinic is wholly owned and operated by one or more
   10  board-eligible or board-certified medical specialists who have
   11  also completed fellowships in pain medicine approved by the
   12  Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education or the
   13  American Osteopathic Association, or who are also board-eligible
   14  or board-certified in pain medicine by a board approved by the
   15  American Board of Medical Specialties, the American Association
   16  of Physician Specialties, or the American Osteopathic
   17  Association and perform interventional pain procedures of the
   18  type routinely billed using surgical codes.
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   21         And the title is amended as follows:
   22         Delete lines 15 - 19
   23  and insert:
   24         s. 458.3265, F.S.; requiring that a pain-management
   25         clinic register with the Department of Health unless
   26         the clinic is wholly owned and operated by certain
   27         health care professionals, including a board-certified
   28         psychiatrist or rheumatologist; amending s. 459.0137,
   29         F.S.; requiring that a pain-management clinic register
   30         with the Department of Health unless the clinic is
   31         wholly owned by certain health care practitioners;