| 1 | Representative(s) R. Garcia offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment to Amendment (824249) (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Remove lines 945-962 and insert: |
| 5 | (g) Conduct systematic reviews of clinic billings to |
| 6 | ensure that the billings are not fraudulent or unlawful. Upon |
| 7 | discovery of an unlawful charge, the medical director or clinic |
| 8 | director shall take immediate corrective action. If the clinic |
| 9 | performs only the technical component of magnetic resonance |
| 10 | imaging, static radiographs, computed tomography, or positron |
| 11 | emission tomography, and provides the professional |
| 12 | interpretation of such services, in a fixed facility that is |
| 13 | accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of |
| 14 | Healthcare Organizations or the Accreditation Association for |
| 15 | Ambulatory Health Care, and the American College of Radiology; |
| 16 | and if, in the preceding quarter, the percentage of scans |
| 17 | performed by that clinic which was billed to all personal injury |
| 18 | protection insurance carriers was less than 15 percent, the |
| 19 | chief financial officer of the clinic may, in a written |
| 20 | acknowledgment provided to the agency, assume the responsibility |
| 21 | for the conduct of the systematic reviews of clinic billings to |
| 22 | ensure that the billings are not fraudulent or unlawful. |
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| 25 | Remove lines 1853-1854 and insert: |
| 26 | the act; providing definitions; amending s. 324.171, |
| 27 | F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the |
| 28 | act; amending s. 400.9935, F.S.; revising provisions |
| 29 | relating to systematic reviews of billings of certain |
| 30 | clinics; amending ss. 409.901, 409.910, 456.057, |
| 31 | 456.072, 626.9541, |