Senate Bill sb1806

    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 1806

    By Senator Atwater





    25-1267-04                                              See HB

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to reimbursement for trauma

  3         center services; amending s. 395.403, F.S.;

  4         revising a legislative finding; requiring

  5         trauma centers to include in certain claims the

  6         cost of certain medically necessary services

  7         provided by certain persons; requiring such

  8         centers to pay such persons amounts paid for

  9         such services under a claim; providing an

10         effective date.

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12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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14         Section 1.  Subsection (1) of section 395.403, Florida

15  Statutes, is amended, subsection (8) is renumbered as

16  subsection (9), and a new subsection (8) is added to that

17  section, to read:

18         395.403  Reimbursement of state-sponsored trauma

19  centers.--

20         (1)  The Legislature finds that many hospitals,

21  physicians, and health care professionals that which provide

22  services to trauma victims are not adequately compensated for

23  such treatment. The Legislature also recognizes that the

24  current verified trauma centers are providing such services

25  without adequate reimbursement. Therefore, it is the intent of

26  the Legislature to provide financial support to the current

27  verified trauma centers and to establish a system of

28  state-sponsored trauma centers as soon as feasibly possible.

29  It is also the intent of the Legislature that this system of

30  state-sponsored trauma centers be assisted financially based

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    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 1806
    25-1267-04                                              See HB




 1  on the volume and acuity of uncompensated trauma care

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 3         (8)  A state-sponsored trauma center shall include the

 4  cost of medically necessary services rendered by physicians

 5  and other health care professionals to eligible patients at

 6  such center in each claim submitted and pay such physicians

 7  and health care professionals any amount paid by the state for

 8  such services under the claim.

 9         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

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