SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 2522

    Amendment No.    

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11  Senator Campbell moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 16, lines 21 and 22, delete those lines

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17         Section 2.  Effective July 1, 1999, section 627.7406,

18  Florida Statutes, is created to read:

19         627.7406  Prohibited billing by brokers.--Charges for

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

21  scan services covered by a policy of motor vehicle insurance

22  shall be unenforceable against the recipient of such services,

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

24  entity unless such charges are billed and collected by the

25  100-percent owner or the 100-percent lessee of the equipment

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

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

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

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

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

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

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 2522

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

 2  hospital and physician management company. This section also

 3  does not apply to billing and collection by a physician

 4  management company whose MRI and CT scan services are

 5  ancillary to the physician practices managed, a debt

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

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

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

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

10  remitted to such 100-percent owner or lessee.

11         Section 3.  Except as otherwise expressly provided in

12  this act, this act shall take effect upon becoming a law.

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16  And the title is amended as follows:

17         On page 1, line 5, after the semicolon

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

21         unenforceability against certain persons or

22         entities of charges for certain medical

23         services under certain circumstances; providing

24         a definition; providing a limitation; providing

25         an exception;

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