Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 258
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  02/17/2015           .                                
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       The Committee on Banking and Insurance (Richter) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 386 - 395
    4  and insert:
    5  schedule or payment limitation in effect on March 1 of the
    6  service year in which the services, supplies, or care is
    7  rendered and for the area in which such services, supplies, or
    8  care is rendered, and the applicable fee schedule or payment
    9  limitation applies to services, supplies, or care rendered
   10  during throughout the remainder of that service year,
   11  notwithstanding any subsequent change made to the fee schedule
   12  or payment limitation, except that it may not be less than the
   13  allowable amount under the applicable schedule of Medicare Part
   14  B for 2007 for medical services, supplies, and care subject to
   15  Medicare Part B. As used in this subparagraph, the term “service
   16  year” means the period from March 1 through the last day of
   17  February of the following year.
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   21  And the title is amended as follows:
   22         Delete lines 37 - 38
   23  and insert:
   24         revising the applicability of certain Medicare fee
   25         schedules or payment limitations; defining the term
   26         “service year”;