HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                     Bill No. CS/HB 1659, 1st Eng.

    Amendment No.     (for drafter's use only)

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11  Representative(s) Fasano offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 85, between lines 18 & 19, of the bill

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17         Section 46.  Subsection (11) of section 641.51, Florida

18  Statutes, is created to read:

19         641.51  Quality assurance program; second medical

20  opinion requirement.--

21         (11)  If a contracted primary care physician, licensed

22  under Chapter 458 or Chapter 459, and the organization

23  determine that a subscriber requires examination by a licensed

24  ophthalmologist for medically necessary, contractually covered

25  services, then the organization shall authorize the contracted

26  primary care physician to send the subscriber to a contracted

27  licensed ophthalmologist,

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                     Bill No. CS/HB 1659, 1st Eng.

    Amendment No.     (for drafter's use only)





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 2  And the title is amended as follows:

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 6         amending s. 641.51, F.S.; providing for

 7         referral to ophthalmologist under certain

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