Florida Senate - 2007 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
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11 The Committee on Health Regulation (Fasano) recommended the
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 3. Paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section
19 395.7015, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
20 395.7015 Annual assessment on health care entities.--
21 (2) There is imposed an annual assessment against
22 certain health care entities as described in this section:
23 (b) For the purpose of this section, "health care
24 entities" include the following:
25 1. Ambulatory surgical centers and mobile surgical
26 facilities licensed under s. 395.003. This subsection shall
27 only apply to mobile surgical facilities operating under
28 contracts entered into on or after July 1, 1998.
29 2. Clinical laboratories licensed under s. 483.091,
30 excluding any hospital laboratory defined under s. 483.041(6),
31 any clinical laboratory operated by the state or a political
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1 subdivision of the state, any clinical laboratory which
2 qualifies as an exempt organization under s. 501(c)(3) of the
3 Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and which receives
4 70 percent or more of its gross revenues from services to
5 charity patients or Medicaid patients, and any blood, plasma,
6 or tissue bank procuring, storing, or distributing blood,
7 plasma, or tissue either for future manufacture or research or
8 distributed on a nonprofit basis, and further excluding any
9 clinical laboratory which is wholly owned and operated by 6 or
10 fewer physicians who are licensed pursuant to chapter 458 or
11 chapter 459 and who practice in the same group practice, and
12 at which no clinical laboratory work is performed for patients
13 referred by any health care provider who is not a member of
14 the same group.
15 3. Diagnostic-imaging centers that are freestanding
16 outpatient facilities that provide specialized services for
17 the identification or determination of a disease through
18 examination and also provide sophisticated radiological
19 services, and in which services are rendered by a physician
20 licensed by the Board of Medicine under s. 458.311, s.
21 458.313, or s. 458.317, or by an osteopathic physician
22 licensed by the Board of Osteopathic Medicine under s.
23 459.0055 s. 459.006, s. 459.007, or s. 459.0075. For purposes
24 of this paragraph, "sophisticated radiological services" means
25 the following: magnetic resonance imaging; nuclear medicine;
26 angiography; arteriography; computed tomography; positron
27 emission tomography; digital vascular imaging; bronchography;
28 lymphangiography; splenography; ultrasound, excluding
29 ultrasound providers that are part of a private physician's
30 office practice or when ultrasound is provided by two or more
31 physicians licensed under chapter 458 or chapter 459 who are
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1 members of the same professional association and who practice
2 in the same medical specialties; and such other sophisticated
3 radiological services, excluding mammography, as adopted in
4 rule by the board.
5 Section 4. Subsections (1) and (2) of section
6 459.0092, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
7 459.0092 Fees.--The board shall set fees according to
8 the following schedule:
9 (1) The fee for application or certification pursuant
10 to ss. 459.0055(2) ss. 459.007, 459.0075, and 459.0077 shall
11 not exceed $500.
12 (2) The fee for application and examination pursuant
13 to s. 459.0055(1)(m) s. 459.006 shall not exceed $175 plus the
14 actual per applicant cost to the department for purchase of
15 the examination from the National Board of Osteopathic Medical
16 Examiners or a similar national organization.
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22 And the title is amended as follows:
23 On page 1, line 11, following the semicolon
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26 amending ss. 395.7015, 459.0092, F.S.;
27 conforming cross-references;
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