Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1646
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  02/28/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human
       Services Appropriations (Garcia) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 8 and 9
    4  insert:
    5         Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (15) of section
    6  400.506, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         400.506 Licensure of nurse registries; requirements;
    8  penalties.—
    9         (15)(a) The agency may deny, suspend, or revoke the license
   10  of a nurse registry and shall impose a fine of $5,000 against a
   11  nurse registry that:
   12         1. Provides services to residents in an assisted living
   13  facility for which the nurse registry does not receive fair
   14  market value remuneration.
   15         2. Provides staffing to an assisted living facility for
   16  which the nurse registry does not receive fair market value
   17  remuneration.
   18         3. Fails to provide the agency, upon request, with copies
   19  of all contracts with assisted living facilities which were
   20  executed within the last 5 years.
   21         4. Gives remuneration to a case manager, discharge planner,
   22  facility-based staff member, or third-party vendor who is
   23  involved in the discharge planning process of a facility
   24  licensed under chapter 395 or this chapter and from whom the
   25  nurse registry receives referrals. A nurse registry is exempt
   26  from this subparagraph if it does not bill the Florida Medicaid
   27  program or the Medicare program or share a controlling interest
   28  with any entity licensed, registered, or certified under part II
   29  of chapter 408 that bills the Florida Medicaid program or the
   30  Medicare program.
   31         5. Gives remuneration to a physician, a member of the
   32  physician’s office staff, or an immediate family member of the
   33  physician, and the nurse registry received a patient referral in
   34  the last 12 months from that physician or the physician’s office
   35  staff. A nurse registry is exempt from this subparagraph if it
   36  does not bill the Florida Medicaid program or the Medicare
   37  program or share a controlling interest with any entity
   38  licensed, registered, or certified under part II of chapter 408
   39  that bills the Florida Medicaid program or the Medicare program.
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   41  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   42         And the title is amended as follows:
   43         Between lines 3 and 4
   44  insert:
   45         s. 409.506, F.S.; revising the grounds for denying,
   46         suspending, or revoking the license of a nurse
   47         registry; amending