Bill Amendment: FL S0222 | 2017 | Regular Session
NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List
Bill Title: Length of Time a Patient May Stay at an Ambulatory Surgical Center or Mobile Surgical Center
Status: 2017-05-05 - Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services [S0222 Detail]
Download: Florida-2017-S0222-Senate_Committee_Substitue_Amendment_863130_Amendment_Delete_All_752562_.html
Bill Title: Length of Time a Patient May Stay at an Ambulatory Surgical Center or Mobile Surgical Center
Status: 2017-05-05 - Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services [S0222 Detail]
Download: Florida-2017-S0222-Senate_Committee_Substitue_Amendment_863130_Amendment_Delete_All_752562_.html
Florida Senate - 2017 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 222 Ì863130lÎ863130 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House . . . . . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The Committee on Health Policy (Young) recommended the following: 1 Senate Substitute for Amendment (752562) (with title 2 amendment) 3 4 Delete everything after the enacting clause 5 and insert: 6 Section 1. Subsection (3) of section 395.002, Florida 7 Statutes, is amended to read: 8 395.002 Definitions.—As used in this chapter: 9 (3) “Ambulatory surgical center” or “mobile surgical 10 facility” means a facility the primary purpose of which is to 11 provide elective surgical care, in which the patient is admitted 12 to and discharged from such facility within 24 hoursthe same13working day and is not permitted to stay overnight, and which is 14 not part of a hospital. However, a facility existing for the 15 primary purpose of performing terminations of pregnancy, an 16 office maintained by a physician for the practice of medicine, 17 or an office maintained for the practice of dentistry shall not 18 be construed to be an ambulatory surgical center, provided that 19 any facility or office which is certified or seeks certification 20 as a Medicare ambulatory surgical center shall be licensed as an 21 ambulatory surgical center pursuant to s. 395.003. Any structure 22 or vehicle in which a physician maintains an office and 23 practices surgery, and which can appear to the public to be a 24 mobile office because the structure or vehicle operates at more 25 than one address, shall be construed to be a mobile surgical 26 facility. 27 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2017. 28 29 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 30 And the title is amended as follows: 31 Delete everything before the enacting clause 32 and insert: 33 A bill to be entitled 34 An act relating to the length of time a patient may 35 stay at an ambulatory surgical center or mobile 36 surgical center; amending s. 395.002, F.S.; revising 37 the definition of ambulatory surgical center and 38 mobile surgical facility; providing an effective date.