House Bill 2191

    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                HB 2191

        By Representative Ritter






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to health insurance; providing

  3         for unenforceability against certain persons or

  4         entities of charges for certain services under

  5         certain circumstances; providing a definition;

  6         providing a limitation; providing an exception;

  7         providing an effective date.

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  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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11         Section 1.  Charges for magnetic resonance imaging

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

13  unenforceable against the recipient of such services, an

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

15  unless such charges are billed and collected by the

16  100-percent owner or the 100-percent lessee of the equipment

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

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

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

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

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

22  a part-time lessee. This section does not preclude billing and

23  collection by a hospital, a hospital or physician management

24  company whose MRI or CT scan services are ancillary to the

25  practices managed, a debt collection agency, or an entity that

26  has contracted with an insurer or third-party payor to obtain

27  a discounted rate for such services provided such entity does

28  not retain for its services more than 25 percent of the amount

29  remitted to such owner or lessee.

30         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

31  law.

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                HB 2191

    585-121-99






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      Provides for unenforceability of charges for magnetic
  4    resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT) scan
      services against the recipient of such services, an
  5    insurer, a third-party payor, and any other person or
      entity. Provides an exception.
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