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) 630 and 631, insert:
16	(3) No later than 15 days after a physician has, within a
17	60-month period, made three reports as required by subsection
18	(1), and those reports involve adverse incidents, the Department
19	of Health shall suspend the physician’s license and initiate an
20	emergency investigation and the Board of Medicine shall conduct
21	an emergency probable cause hearing to determine whether the
22	physician should be disciplined for a violation of s.
23	458.331(1)(t) or any other relevant provision of law. For the
24	purposes of this subsection, an "adverse incident" means an
25	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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