SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 1978

    Amendment No.    

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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, between lines 23 and 24,

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18         Section 3.  Charges for magnetic resonance imaging

19  (MRI) or computed tomography (CT) scan services shall be

20  unenforceable against the recipient of such services, an

21  insurer, a third-party payor, and any other person or entity

22  unless such charges are billed and collected by the

23  100-percent owner or the 100-percent lessee of the equipment

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

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

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

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

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

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

30  collection by a hospital or a hospital and physician

31  management company. A debt collection agency or another entity

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 1978

    Amendment No.    





 1  that has contracted with an insurer or third-party payor to

 2  obtain a discounted rate for such collection services,

 3  provided such collection agency does not retain for its

 4  services more than 25 percent of the amount remitted to such

 5  owner or lessee, may bill for MRI or CT services of the

 6  100-percent owner or 100-percent lessee.

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12  And the title is amended as follows:

13         On page 1, line 13, after the semicolon

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16         providing for unenforceability against certain

17         persons or entities of charges for certain

18         services under certain circumstances; providing

19         a definition; providing a limitation; providing

20         an exception;

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