HOUSE AMENDMENT Bill No. HB 1713
1	CHAMBER ACTION
2	Senate House
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12	Representative Ryan offered the following:
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14	Amendment
15	Between line(s) 709 and 710, insert:
16	(3) No later than 15 days after an osteopathic physician
17	has, within a 60-month period, made three reports as required by
18	subsection (1), and those reports involve adverse incidents, the
19	Department of Health shall suspend the physician’s license and
20	initiate an emergency investigation and the Board of Osteopathic
21	Medicine shall conduct an emergency probable cause hearing to
22	determine whether the physician should be disciplined for a
23	violation of s. 459.015(1)(x) or any other relevant provision of
24	law. For the purposes of this subsection, an "adverse incident"
25	means an event that results in:
26	(a) The death of a patient;
27	(b) Brain or spinal damage to a patient;
28	(c) The performance of a surgical procedure on the wrong
29	patient;
30	(d) The performance of a wrong-site surgical procedure;
31	(e) The performance of a surgical procedure that is
32	medically unnecessary or otherwise unrelated to the patient's
33	diagnosis or medical condition;
34	(f) The surgical repair of damage to a patient resulting
35	from a planned surgical procedure, which damage is not a
36	recognized specific risk as disclosed to the patient and
37	documented through the informed-consent process; or
38	(g) The performance of a procedure to remove unplanned
39	foreign objects remaining from a surgical procedure.
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