Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 478
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/16/2015           .                                
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services (Bean)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Substitute for Amendment (620994) (with title
    2  amendment)
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    4         Delete lines 63 - 75
    5  and insert:
    6  pain as defined in ss. 458.3265 and 459.0137. This paragraph
    7  does not preclude a practitioner licensed under chapter 458 or
    8  chapter 459 or an advanced registered nurse practitioner
    9  certified under s. 464.012 from using telehealth to order a
   10  controlled substance for an inpatient admitted to a facility
   11  licensed under chapter 395 or a hospice patient under chapter
   12  400.
   13         (e) A telehealth provider may not use telehealth to
   14  prescribe lenses, spectacles, eyeglasses, contact lenses, or
   15  other optical devices or prescribe based solely on the
   16  refractive error of the human eye generated by a computer
   17  controlled device such as an autorefractor.
   18         (3) RECORDS.—A telehealth provider shall document in the
   19  patient’s medical record the health care services rendered using
   20  telehealth according to the same standard used for in-person
   21  health care services pursuant to ss. 395.3025(4) and 456.057.
   22         Section 2. Subsection (1) of section 636.202, Florida
   23  Statutes, is amended to read:
   24         636.202 Definitions.—As used in this part, the term:
   25         (1) “Discount medical plan” means a business arrangement or
   26  contract in which a person, in exchange for fees, dues, charges,
   27  or other consideration, provides access for plan members to
   28  providers of medical services and the right to receive medical
   29  services from those providers at a discount. The term “discount
   30  medical plan” does not include any product regulated under
   31  chapter 627, chapter 641, or part I of this chapter or any
   32  telehealth product regulated under s. 456.47.
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   36  And the title is amended as follows:
   37         Delete line 10
   38  and insert:
   39         confidentiality of medical records; amending s.
   40         636.202, F.S.; excluding telehealth products from the
   41         definition of “discount medical plan”; providing an