Senate Bill sb2628

    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 2628

    By Senator Diaz de la Portilla





    36-1538A-06                                             See HB

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to medical care; creating ss.

  3         458.3246 and 459.0127, F.S.; providing for

  4         physicians and osteopathic physicians to

  5         counsel and test certain patients for chronic

  6         kidney disease; amending s. 483.181, F.S.;

  7         requiring clinical laboratories to provide

  8         specified calculations in reports to physicians

  9         and osteopathic physicians; providing an

10         effective date.

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12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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14         Section 1.  Section 458.3246, Florida Statutes, is

15  created to read:

16         458.3246  Chronic kidney disease; counseling and

17  testing.--A physician licensed under this chapter who is

18  treating a patient with diabetes or hypertension or a patient

19  who has a family history of kidney disease is urged to counsel

20  the patient regarding chronic kidney disease and is urged to

21  test the patient for chronic kidney disease by referring the

22  patient for a routine clinical laboratory assessment of the

23  patient's kidney functions, unless the patient refuses such

24  testing.

25         Section 2.  Section 459.0127, Florida Statutes, is

26  created to read:

27         459.0127  Chronic kidney disease; counseling and

28  testing.--An osteopathic physician licensed under this chapter

29  who is treating a patient with diabetes or hypertension or a

30  patient who has a family history of kidney disease is urged to

31  counsel the patient regarding chronic kidney disease and is

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    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 2628
    36-1538A-06                                             See HB




 1  urged to test the patient for chronic kidney disease by

 2  referring the patient for a routine clinical laboratory

 3  assessment of the patient's kidney functions, unless the

 4  patient refuses such testing.

 5         Section 3.  Subsection (6) is added to section 483.181,

 6  Florida Statutes, to read:

 7         483.181  Acceptance, collection, identification, and

 8  examination of specimens.--

 9         (6)  A clinical laboratory licensed under this part

10  that tests a specimen to determine a patient's serum

11  creatinine level, as ordered or prescribed by a practitioner

12  licensed under chapter 458 or chapter 459, shall calculate the

13  patient's glomerular filtration rate using the information

14  provided by the physician or the patient, as applicable. The

15  laboratory shall include the patient's glomerular filtration

16  rate in its report to the physician.

17         Section 4.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.

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