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 Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 63 - 75
    4  and insert:
    5  pain as defined in ss. 458.3265 and 459.0137. This paragraph
    6  does not preclude a physician from using telehealth to order a
    7  controlled substance for an inpatient admitted to a facility
    8  licensed under chapter 395 or a hospice patient under chapter
    9  400.
   10         (e) A telehealth provider may not use telehealth to
   11  prescribe lenses, spectacles, eyeglasses, contact lenses, or
   12  other optical devices or prescribe based solely on the
   13  refractive error of the human eye generated by a computer
   14  controlled device such as an autorefractor.
   15         (3) RECORDS.—A telehealth provider shall document in the
   16  patient’s medical record the health care services rendered using
   17  telehealth according to the same standard used for in-person
   18  health care services pursuant to ss. 395.3025(4) and 456.057.
   19         Section 2. Subsection (1) of section 636.202, Florida
   20  Statutes, is amended to read:
   21         636.202 Definitions.—As used in this part, the term:
   22         (1) “Discount medical plan” means a business arrangement or
   23  contract in which a person, in exchange for fees, dues, charges,
   24  or other consideration, provides access for plan members to
   25  providers of medical services and the right to receive medical
   26  services from those providers at a discount. The term “discount
   27  medical plan” does not include any product regulated under
   28  chapter 627, chapter 641, or part I of this chapter or any
   29  telehealth product regulated under s. 456.47.
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   32  And the title is amended as follows:
   33         Delete line 10
   34  and insert:
   35         confidentiality of medical records; amending s.
   36         636.202, F.S.; excluding telehealth products from the
   37         definition of "discount medical plan"; providing an