Florida Senate - 2015                                     SB 738
       
       
        
       By Senator Grimsley
       
       
       
       
       
       21-00589-15                                            2015738__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to clinical laboratories; amending s.
    3         483.181, F.S.; requiring certain licensed clinical
    4         laboratories to make their services available to
    5         specified licensed practitioners; prohibiting such
    6         clinical laboratories from charging different prices
    7         for its services based on the type of license a
    8         practitioner has; authorizing such clinical
    9         laboratories to refuse to perform a service if the
   10         service is not reimbursable by the applicable insurer
   11         or other payor or if there is a history of nonpayment
   12         for services by the requester of the service;
   13         providing an effective date.
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   15  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   17         Section 1. Subsection (5) of section 483.181, Florida
   18  Statutes, is amended to read:
   19         483.181 Acceptance, collection, identification, and
   20  examination of specimens.—
   21         (5) A clinical laboratory licensed under this part, except
   22  for a clinical laboratory described in s. 483.035(1), must make
   23  its services available to accept a human specimen submitted for
   24  examination by a practitioner licensed under chapter 458,
   25  chapter 459, chapter 460, chapter 461, chapter 462, chapter 463,
   26  s. 464.012, or chapter 466, and may if the specimen and test are
   27  the type performed by the clinical laboratory. A clinical
   28  laboratory may only refuse a specimen based upon a history of
   29  nonpayment for services by the practitioner. A clinical
   30  laboratory shall not charge different prices for its services
   31  tests based upon the type of license held by the practitioner
   32  chapter under which a practitioner submitting a specimen for
   33  testing is licensed. A clinical laboratory may refuse to perform
   34  a service if the service is not reimbursable by the applicable
   35  insurer or other payor or if there is a history of nonpayment
   36  for services by the requester of the service.
   37         Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.