Florida Senate - 2015 SB 738
By Senator Grimsley
21-00589-15 2015738__
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to clinical laboratories; amending s.
3 483.181, F.S.; requiring certain licensed clinical
4 laboratories to make their services available to
5 specified licensed practitioners; prohibiting such
6 clinical laboratories from charging different prices
7 for its services based on the type of license a
8 practitioner has; authorizing such clinical
9 laboratories to refuse to perform a service if the
10 service is not reimbursable by the applicable insurer
11 or other payor or if there is a history of nonpayment
12 for services by the requester of the service;
13 providing an effective date.
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15 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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17 Section 1. Subsection (5) of section 483.181, Florida
18 Statutes, is amended to read:
19 483.181 Acceptance, collection, identification, and
20 examination of specimens.—
21 (5) A clinical laboratory licensed under this part, except
22 for a clinical laboratory described in s. 483.035(1), must make
23 its services available to accept a human specimen submitted for
24 examination by a practitioner licensed under chapter 458,
25 chapter 459, chapter 460, chapter 461, chapter 462, chapter 463,
26 s. 464.012, or chapter 466, and may if the specimen and test are
27 the type performed by the clinical laboratory. A clinical
28 laboratory may only refuse a specimen based upon a history of
29 nonpayment for services by the practitioner. A clinical
30 laboratory shall not charge different prices for its services
31 tests based upon the type of license held by the practitioner
32 chapter under which a practitioner submitting a specimen for
33 testing is licensed. A clinical laboratory may refuse to perform
34 a service if the service is not reimbursable by the applicable
35 insurer or other payor or if there is a history of nonpayment
36 for services by the requester of the service.
37 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.