SENATE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for SB 560
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11 Senator Saunders moved the following amendment to amendment
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 10. Subsections (1), (9), and (11) of section
19 400.9935, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
20 400.9935 Clinic responsibilities.--
21 (1) Each clinic shall appoint a medical director or
22 clinic director who shall agree in writing to accept legal
23 responsibility for the following activities on behalf of the
24 clinic. The medical director or the clinic director shall:
25 (a) Have signs identifying the medical director or
26 clinic director posted in a conspicuous location within the
27 clinic readily visible to all patients.
28 (b) Ensure that all practitioners providing health
29 care services or supplies to patients maintain a current
30 active and unencumbered Florida license.
31 (c) Review any patient referral contracts or
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2 (d) Ensure that all health care practitioners at the
3 clinic have active appropriate certification or licensure for
4 the level of care being provided.
5 (e) Serve as the clinic records owner as defined in s.
6 456.057.
7 (f) Ensure compliance with the recordkeeping, office
8 surgery, and adverse incident reporting requirements of
9 chapter 456, the respective practice acts, and rules adopted
10 under this part and part II of chapter 408.
11 (g) Conduct systematic reviews of clinic billings to
12 ensure that the billings are not fraudulent or unlawful. Upon
13 discovery of an unlawful charge, the medical director or
14 clinic director shall take immediate corrective action. If the
15 clinic performs only the technical component of magnetic
16 resonance imaging, static radiographs, computed tomography, or
17 position emission tomography, and provides the professional
18 interpretation of such services, in a fixed facility that is
19 accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of
20 Healthcare Organizations or the Accreditation Association for
21 Ambulatory Health Care, and the American College of Radiology;
22 and if, in the preceding quarter, the percentage of scans
23 performed by that clinic which was billed to all personal
24 injury protection insurance carriers was less than 15 percent,
25 the chief financial officer of the clinic may, in a written
26 acknowledgement provided to the agency, assume the
27 responsibility for the conduct of the systematic reviews of
28 clinic billings to ensure that the billings are not fraudulent
29 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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