Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1884
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  03/01/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human
       Services Appropriations (Negron) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (112214) (with title
    2  amendment)
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    4         Between lines 3922 and 3923
    5  insert:
    6         Section 96. Section 624.49, Florida Statutes, is created to
    7  read:
    8         624.49 Prohibition on contracts.—Notwithstanding any other
    9  provision of law, a managed care entity, insurance carrier,
   10  self-insured entity, or third-party administrator, or an agent
   11  thereof, governed by state law, may not impose a contracted
   12  reimbursement rate on a medical provider for goods or services
   13  provided or rendered pursuant to chapter 440 unless the carrier
   14  directly contracts with the provider for that rate.
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   17         And the title is amended as follows:
   18         Delete line 4241
   19  and insert:
   20         prescription drugs; creating s. 624.49, F.S.;
   21         prohibiting a managed care entity, insurance carrier,
   22         self-insured entity, or third-party administrator, or
   23         an agent thereof, from imposing a contracted
   24         reimbursement rate on a medical provider for certain
   25         goods or services unless the carrier directly
   26         contracts with the provider for that rate; amending s.
   27         817.505, F.S.;