Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 190
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Health Policy (Bean) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 21 - 31
    4  and insert:
    5  the agency shall assume that there is a need for one additional
    6  hospice provider in that service area to promote competition.
    7  When approving any such additional hospice, the agency must give
    8  preference to hospice organizations that operate one or more
    9  licensed hospices in Florida and whose operating entities are
   10  Florida corporations registered to do business in the state. The
   11  inpatient hospice care component of a hospice which is a
   12  freestanding facility, or a part of a facility, which is
   13  primarily engaged in providing inpatient care and related
   14  services and is not licensed as a health care facility shall
   15  also be required to obtain a certificate of need. Provision of
   16  hospice care by any current provider of health care is a
   17  significant change in service and therefore requires a
   18  certificate of need for such services.
   19         Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming law.
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   22  And the title is amended as follows:
   23         Between lines 5 and 6
   24  insert:
   25         requiring the agency to give preference to certain
   26         hospice providers;
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