SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 1554

    Amendment No.    

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11  Senator Brown-Waite moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         Delete everything after the enacting clause

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16  and insert:

17         Section 1.  Subsection (18) is added to section

18  627.6472, Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, to read:

19         627.6472  Exclusive provider organizations.--

20         (18)  Each organization shall allow, without prior

21  authorization, a female subscriber to visit a contracted

22  obstetrician/gynecologist for one annual visit and medically

23  necessary follow-up care detected at that visit. Nothing in

24  this subsection shall prevent an organization from requiring

25  that an obstetrician/gynecologist treating a covered patient

26  coordinate the medical care through the patient's primary care

27  physician, if applicable.

28         Section 2.  Subsection (11) is added to section 641.51,

29  Florida Statutes, to read:

30         641.51  Quality assurance program; second medical

31  opinion requirement.--

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 1554

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 1         (11)  Each organization shall allow, without prior

 2  authorization, a female subscriber, to visit a contracted

 3  obstetrician/gynecologist for one annual visit and for

 4  medically necessary follow-up care detected at that visit.

 5  Nothing in this subsection shall prevent an organization from

 6  requiring that an obstetrician/gynecologist treating a covered

 7  patient coordinate the medical care through the patient's

 8  primary care physician, if applicable.

 9         Section 3.  This act shall take effect on October 1,

10  1999, and shall apply to contracts issued or renewed on or

11  after the effective date.

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15  And the title is amended as follows:

16         On page 1, lines 5-9, delete those lines

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18  and insert:

19         organization to provide, without prior

20         authorization, female subscribers one annual

21         visit to an obstetrician/gynecologist;

22         requiring coordination of medical care;

23         amending s. 641.51, F.S.; requiring a health

24         maintenance organization to provide, without

25         prior authorization, female subscribers one

26         annual visit to an obstetrician/gynecologist;

27         requiring coordination of medical care;

28         providing an effective date which shall apply

29         to contracts issued or renewed on or after the

30         effective date.

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