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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 362

    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 683644

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11  Senator Pruitt moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

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17         Section 13.  Subsection (12) of section 641.51, Florida

18  Statutes, is amended to read:

19         641.51  Quality assurance program; second medical

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

22  under chapter 458 or chapter 459, determines and the

23  organization determine that a subscriber requires examination

24  by a licensed ophthalmologist for medically necessary,

25  contractually covered services, then the organization shall

26  authorize the contracted primary care physician to send the

27  subscriber to a contracted licensed ophthalmologist.

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 362

    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 683644





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  2  And the title is amended as follows:

  3         On page 3, line 6, after the second semicolon

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  6         amending s. 641.51, F.S.; revising provisions

  7         governing examinations by ophthalmologists;

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