SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 1978

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11  Senators Campbell, Brown-Waite, Silver and Myers moved the

12  following amendment:

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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

15         On page 3, lines 24-26, delete those lines

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18         Section 3.  Section 627.7406, Florida Statutes, is

19  created to read:

20         627.7406  Prohibited billing by brokers.--Charges for

21  magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT)

22  scan services covered by a policy of motor vehicle insurance

23  shall be unenforceable against the recipient of such services,

24  an insurer, a third-party payor, and any other person or

25  entity unless such charges are billed and collected by the

26  100-percent owner or the 100-percent lessee of the equipment

27  used to perform such services. Such owner or lessee may be an

28  individual, a corporation, a partnership, or any other entity

29  and any of its 100-percent-owned affiliates and subsidiaries.

30  For purposes of this section, "lessee" means a long-term

31  lessee under a capital or operating lease but does not include

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

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 1  a part-time lessee. This section does not apply to billing and

 2  collection by a hospital, a hospital management company, or a

 3  hospital and physician management company. This section also

 4  does not apply to billing and collection by a physician

 5  management company whose MRI and CT scan services are

 6  ancillary to the physician practices managed, a debt

 7  collection agency, or an entity that has contracted with an

 8  insurer or third-party payor to obtain a discounted rate for

 9  such MRI and CT scan services, provided such entity does not

10  retain for its services more than 25 percent of the amount

11  remitted to such 100-percent owner or lessee.

12         Section 4.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1999,

13  and sections 1 and 2 shall apply to policies issued or renewed

14  on or after July 1, 2000.

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18  And the title is amended as follows:

19         On page 1, line 13, after the semicolon

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22         creating s. 627.7406, F.S.; providing for

23         unenforceability against certain persons or

24         entities of charges for certain medical

25         services under certain circumstances; providing

26         a definition; providing a limitation; providing

27         an exception;

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