Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 2330
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11  The Committee on Banking and Insurance (Alexander) recommended
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         On page 3, lines 7 through 9, delete those lines
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18         Section 1.  Paragraph (h) is added to subsection (1) of
19  section 400.9935, Florida Statutes, and subsection (13) is
20  added to that section, to read:
21         400.9935  Clinic responsibilities.--
22         (1)  Each clinic shall appoint a medical director or
23  clinic director who shall agree in writing to accept legal
24  responsibility for the following activities on behalf of the
25  clinic. The medical director or the clinic director shall:
26         (h)  Not engage in the referral of patients to the
27  clinic if the clinic performs magnetic resonance imaging,
28  static radiographs, computed tomography, or positron emission
29  tomography. Referral of patients means the referral of one or
30  more patients of the medical or clinic director or a member of
31  the medical or clinic director's group practice to the clinic
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    Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 2330
                        Barcode 625612
 1  for magnetic resonance imaging, static radiographs, computed
 2  tomography, or positron emission tomography. A medical
 3  director who is found to violate this part commits a felony of
 4  the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s.
 5  775.083, or s. 775.084.
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 9  And the title is amended as follows:
10         On page 1, line 3, after the semicolon,
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13         prohibiting a medical director of a clinic from
14         referring patients to the clinic under
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