Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 212
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  01/20/2016           .                                
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       The Committee on Health Policy (Garcia) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (974206) (with title
    2  amendment)
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    4         Between lines 25 and 26
    5  insert:
    6         Section 2. Subsections (6), (7), (8), (9), and (10) of
    7  section 395.003, Florida Statutes, are renumbered as subsections
    8  (7), (8), (9), (10), and (11), respectively, and subsection (6)
    9  is added to that section, to read:
   10         395.003 Licensure; denial, suspension, and revocation.—
   11         (6) As a condition of licensure and license renewal as an
   12  ambulatory surgical center each such facility must provide
   13  services to Medicare patients, Medicaid patients, and patients
   14  who qualify for charity care. For the purposes of this
   15  subsection, "charity care" means uncompensated care delivered to
   16  uninsured patients having incomes at or below 200 percent of the
   17  federal poverty level when such services are preauthorized by
   18  the licensee and not subject to collection procedures.
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   22  And the title is amended as follows:
   23         Between lines 35 and 36
   24  insert:
   25         amending s. 395.003, F.S.; requiring, as a condition
   26         of licensure and license renewal, that ambulatory
   27         surgical centers provide services to specified
   28         patients;