Florida Senate - 2018                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 144
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  02/27/2018           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Grimsley) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 11 - 13
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsection (1) and paragraphs (a) and (b) of
    6  subsection (3) of section 408.0361, Florida Statutes, are
    7  amended to read:
    8         408.0361 Cardiovascular services and burn unit licensure.—
    9         (1) Each provider of diagnostic cardiac catheterization
   10  services shall comply with rules adopted by the agency that
   11  establish licensure standards governing the operation of adult
   12  inpatient diagnostic cardiac catheterization programs. The rules
   13  shall ensure that such programs:
   14         (a) Comply with the most recent guidelines of the American
   15  College of Cardiology and American Heart Association Guidelines
   16  for Cardiac Catheterization and Cardiac Catheterization
   17  Laboratories.
   18         (b) Perform only adult inpatient diagnostic cardiac
   19  catheterization services and will not provide therapeutic
   20  cardiac catheterization or any other cardiology services.
   21         (c) Maintain sufficient appropriate equipment and health
   22  care personnel to ensure quality and safety.
   23         (d) Maintain appropriate times of operation and protocols
   24  to ensure availability and appropriate referrals in the event of
   25  emergencies.
   26         (e) Demonstrate a plan to provide services to Medicaid and
   27  charity care patients.
   28         (f) Are offered at facilities licensed under chapter 395.
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   31  And the title is amended as follows:
   32         Delete lines 3 - 5
   33  and insert:
   34         amending s. 408.0361, F.S.; requiring rules adopted by
   35         the Agency for Health Care Administration to include a
   36         provision ensuring that adult inpatient diagnostic
   37         cardiac catheterization programs are offered at
   38         certain licensed facilities; establishing criteria
   39         that must be included by the agency in rules relating
   40         to the licensure of