HB 0603 2004
1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to reimbursement for trauma center
3	services; amending s. 395.403, F.S.; revising a
4	legislative finding; requiring trauma centers to include
5	in certain claims the cost of certain medically necessary
6	services provided by certain persons; requiring such
7	centers to pay such persons amounts paid for such services
8	under a claim; providing an effective date.
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10	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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12	Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 395.403, Florida
13	Statutes, is amended, subsection (8) is renumbered as subsection
14	(9), and a new subsection (8) is added to said section, to read:
15	395.403 Reimbursement of state-sponsored trauma centers.--
16	(1) The Legislature finds that many hospitals, physicians,
17	and health care professionals that whichprovide services to
18	trauma victims are not adequately compensated for such
19	treatment. The Legislature also recognizes that the current
20	verified trauma centers are providing such services without
21	adequate reimbursement. Therefore, it is the intent of the
22	Legislature to provide financial support to the current verified
23	trauma centers and to establish a system of state-sponsored
24	trauma centers as soon as feasibly possible. It is also the
25	intent of the Legislature that this system of state-sponsored
26	trauma centers be assisted financially based on the volume and
27	acuity of uncompensated trauma care provided.
28	(8) A state-sponsored trauma center shall include the cost
29	of medically necessary services rendered by physicians and other
30	health care professionals to eligible patients at such center in
31	each claim submitted and pay such physicians and health care
32	professionals any amount paid by the state for such services
33	under the claim.
34	Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.