Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1884
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/01/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human
       Services Appropriations (Negron) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Substitute for Amendment (730828) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Between lines 2677 and 2678
    5  insert:
    6         Section 62. 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 246
   19  and insert:
   20         prescription drug inventories; creating s. 624.49,
   21         F.S.; prohibiting a managed care entity, insurance
   22         carrier, self-insured entity, or third-party
   23         administrator, or an agent thereof, from imposing a
   24         contracted reimbursement rate on a medical provider
   25         for certain goods or services unless the carrier
   26         directly contracts with the provider for that rate;
   27         amending and creating,