Senate Bill 0762

    Florida Senate - 2000                                   SB 762

    By Senator Kurth





    14-617-00

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to health maintenance

  3         contracts; amending s. 641.31, F.S.; providing

  4         that such contracts must give subscribers and

  5         their physicians the right to make final

  6         decisions regarding the subscribers' treatment;

  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.  Subsection (39) is added to section 641.31,

12  Florida Statutes, to read:

13         641.31  Health maintenance contracts.--

14         (39)  A health maintenance contract must provide that a

15  subscriber and the subscriber's physician have the right to

16  make the final decision regarding the subscriber's treatment.

17         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2000.

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20                          SENATE SUMMARY

21    Provides that health maintenance contracts must provide
      that a subscriber and the subscriber's physician have the
22    right to make final treatment decisions.

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