HOUSE AMENDMENT
Bill No. HB 1713
   
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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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