Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1972
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/15/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Budget (Negron) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 4927 and 4928
    4  insert:
    5         Section 59. Paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section
    6  641.316, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         641.316 Fiscal intermediary services.—
    8         (2)
    9         (b) The term “fiscal intermediary services organization”
   10  means a person or entity that performs fiduciary or fiscal
   11  intermediary services to health care professionals who contract
   12  with health maintenance organizations other than a hospital
   13  licensed under chapter 395, an insurer licensed under chapter
   14  624, a third-party administrator licensed under chapter 626, a
   15  prepaid limited health service organization licensed under
   16  chapter 636, a health maintenance organization licensed under
   17  this chapter, a qualified plan authorized under part IV of
   18  chapter 409, or a physician group practice as defined in s.
   19  456.053(3)(h) which provides services under the scope of
   20  licenses of the members of the group practice.
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   23         And the title is amended as follows:
   24         Delete line 272
   25  and insert:
   26         eliminating provisions requiring reports; amending s.
   27         641.316, F.S.; redefining the term “fiscal
   28         intermediary services organization” to include certain
   29         qualified plans that contract with health care
   30         professionals for fiscal intermediary services;
   31         amending s.