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1998 Florida Statutes
Practitioner advisory groups.
408.7055 Practitioner advisory groups.--
(1) The agency shall by rule establish criteria and conditions for the formation and certification of practitioner advisory groups that may provide practitioner input into the utilization review, administration, coverage, cost-effective medical management, and other operational decisions, except prices or fees, to be made by accountable health partnerships consistent with state and federal antitrust laws.
(2) No practitioner shall be required to join a practitioner advisory group in order to negotiate with any accountable health partnership.
(3) Nothing in this section shall authorize any practitioner advisory group or any of its members to boycott or threaten to boycott any accountable health partnership that does not accept the proposals made by a practitioner advisory group.
(4) The agency shall monitor and annually certify that each practitioner advisory group complies with this section and any implementing rules enacted by the agency. The agency may decertify any practitioner advisory group which fails to comply with this section or any implementing rules enacted by the agency.
(5) No accountable health partnership shall be required to accept any recommendations of a practitioner advisory group.
(6) Notice of each meeting of a practitioner advisory group must be provided to the agency at least 3 days prior to the meeting, and such meeting shall be open to representatives of the agency.
History.--s. 75, ch. 93-129.