Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 2-B
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11  The Committee on Health Care (Peaden) recommended the
12  following amendment:
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         On page 3, line 19,
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17  insert:  
18         Section 1.  A new subsection (8) is added to section
19  409.901, Florida Statutes, and current subsections (8) through
20  (25) are renumbered as subsections (9) through (26) and a new
21  subsection (26) is added to section 409.901, Florida Statutes,
22  and current subsections (26) and (27) are renumbered as
23  subsections (27) and (28), to read:
24         409.901  Definitions; ss. 409.901-409.920.--As used in
25  ss. 409.901-409.920, except as otherwise specifically
26  provided, the term:
27         (8) "Core Safety Net Provider" means a Safety Net
28  Provider which meets any three following criteria as
29  determined by the agency:
30         (a) Have a patient mix consisting of high uninsured,
31  Medicaid, or other vulnerable patients;
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    Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 2-B
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 1         (b) Have a narrow patient base of primarily Medicaid
 2  and uninsured;
 3         (c) Have little or no ability to cost-shift;
 4         (d) Provide enabling services, such as transportation
 5  and translation;
 6         (e) Be statutorily defined teaching hospital;
 7         (f) Be public hospital;
 8         (g) Be statutory rural hospital;
 9         (h) Be critical access hospital;
10         (i) Be federally qualified community health center;
11         (j) Be county health department; or
12         (k) Be rural health clinic.
13         (26) "Safety Net Provider" means a person or entity
14  that organizes and delivers a significant level of health care
15  and other related services to the uninsured, Medicaid, and
16  other vulnerable persons and have either a legal mandate or an
17  explicit policy as determined by the agency, to provide
18  services regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
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20  (Redesignate subsequent sections.)
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24  And the title is amended as follows:
25         On page 1, line 2, after the semicolon
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28         amending s. 409.901, F.S.; providing
29         definitions;
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