Bill Text: FL S0738 | 2015 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Clinical Laboratories

Spectrum:

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-24 - Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 655 (Ch. 2015-119) [S0738 Detail]

Download: Florida-2015-S0738-Comm_Sub.html

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       Florida Senate - 2015                              CS for SB 738
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Health Policy; and Senator Grimsley
       
       
       
       
       
       588-02727-15                                           2015738c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to clinical laboratories; amending s.
    3         483.041, F.S.; adding a consultant pharmacist or
    4         doctor of pharmacy licensed under chapter 465, F.S.,
    5         to the definition of licensed practitioner; amending
    6         s. 483.181, F.S.; requiring clinical laboratories to
    7         make their services available to specified licensed
    8         practitioners; prohibiting such a clinical laboratory
    9         from charging different prices for its services based
   10         upon the chapter under which a practitioner is
   11         licensed; providing an effective date.
   12          
   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   15         Section 1. Subsection (7) of section 483.041, Florida
   16  Statutes, is amended to read:
   17         483.041 Definitions.—As used in this part, the term:
   18         (7) “Licensed practitioner” means a physician licensed
   19  under chapter 458, chapter 459, chapter 460, or chapter 461; a
   20  certified optometrist licensed under chapter 463; a dentist
   21  licensed under chapter 466; a person licensed under chapter 462;
   22  a consultant pharmacist or doctor of pharmacy licensed under
   23  chapter 465; or an advanced registered nurse practitioner
   24  licensed under part I of chapter 464; or a duly licensed
   25  practitioner from another state licensed under similar statutes
   26  who orders examinations on materials or specimens for
   27  nonresidents of the State of Florida, but who reside in the same
   28  state as the requesting licensed practitioner.
   29         Section 2. Subsection (5) of section 483.181, Florida
   30  Statutes, is amended to read:
   31         483.181 Acceptance, collection, identification, and
   32  examination of specimens.—
   33         (5) A clinical laboratory licensed under this part must
   34  make its services available to accept a human specimen submitted
   35  for examination by a practitioner licensed under chapter 458,
   36  chapter 459, chapter 460, chapter 461, chapter 462, chapter 463,
   37  s. 464.012, or chapter 466, or a consultant pharmacist or doctor
   38  of pharmacy licensed under chapter 465 if the specimen and test
   39  are the type performed by the clinical laboratory. A clinical
   40  laboratory may only refuse a specimen based upon a history of
   41  nonpayment for services by the practitioner. A clinical
   42  laboratory shall not charge different prices for its services
   43  tests based upon the chapter under which a practitioner
   44  submitting a specimen for testing is licensed.
   45         Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.