SENATE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for CS for SB 2170, 1st Eng.
Amendment No. ___ Barcode 101526
CHAMBER ACTION
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11 Senator Cowin moved the following amendment:
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13 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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17 Section 138. Subsections (1), (9), and (11) of section
18 400.9935, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
19 400.9935 Clinic responsibilities.--
20 (1) Each clinic shall appoint a medical director or
21 clinic director who shall agree in writing to accept legal
22 responsibility for the following activities on behalf of the
23 clinic. The medical director or the clinic director shall:
24 (a) Have signs identifying the medical director or
25 clinic director posted in a conspicuous location within the
26 clinic readily visible to all patients.
27 (b) Ensure that all practitioners providing health
28 care services or supplies to patients maintain a current
29 active and unencumbered Florida license.
30 (c) Review any patient referral contracts or
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1 (d) Ensure that all health care practitioners at the
2 clinic have active appropriate certification or licensure for
3 the level of care being provided.
4 (e) Serve as the clinic records owner as defined in s.
5 456.057.
6 (f) Ensure compliance with the recordkeeping, office
7 surgery, and adverse incident reporting requirements of
8 chapter 456, the respective practice acts, and rules adopted
9 under this part and part II of chapter 408.
10 (g) Conduct systematic reviews of clinic billings to
11 ensure that the billings are not fraudulent or unlawful. Upon
12 discovery of an unlawful charge, the medical director or
13 clinic director shall take immediate corrective action. If the
14 clinic performs only the technical component of magnetic
15 resonance imaging, static radiographs, computed tomography, or
16 position emission tomography, and provides the professional
17 interpretation of such services, in a fixed facility that is
18 accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of
19 Healthcare Organizations or the Accreditation Association for
20 Ambulatory Health Care, and the American College of Radiology;
21 and if, in the preceding quarter, the percentage of scans
22 performed by that clinic which was billed to all personal
23 injury protection insurance carriers was less than 15 percent,
24 the chief financial officer of the clinic may, in a written
25 acknowledgement provided to the agency, assume the
26 responsibility for the conduct of the systematic reviews of
27 clinic billings to ensure that the billings are not fraudulent
28 or unlawful.
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2 And the title is amended as follows:
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6 assigning responsibilities for ensuring
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