Florida HB 587: Year-round School Programs

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A bill to be entitled 1
An act relating to medical review committees; amending 2
s. 766.101, F.S.; revising the definition of the term 3
"medical review committee"; providing an effective 4
date. 5
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Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 7
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Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1), subsection 9
(5), and paragraph (c) of subsection (7) of section 766.101, 10
Florida Statutes, are amended to read: 11
766.101 Medical review committee, immunity from 12
liability.— 13
(1) As used in this section: 14
(a) The term "medical review committee" or "committee" 15
means: 16
1.a. A committee of a hospital or ambulatory surgical 17
center licensed under chapter 395 or a health maintenance 18
organization certificated under part I of chapter 641; 19
b. A committee of a physician-hospital organization, a 20
provider-sponsored organization, or an integrated delivery 21
system; 22
c. A committee of a state or local professional society of 23
health care providers; 24
d. A committee of a medical staff of a licensed hospital 25

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or nursing home, provided the medical staff operates pursuant to 26
written bylaws that have been approved by the governing board of 27
the hospital or nursing home; 28
e. A committee of the Department of Corrections or the 29
Correctional Medical Authority as created under s. 945.602, or 30
employees, agents, or consultants of either the department or 31
the authority or both; 32
f. A committee of a professional service corporation 33
formed under chapter 621 or a corporation organized under part I 34
of chapter 607 or chapter 617, which is formed and operated for 35
the practice of medicine as defined in s. 458.305(3), and which 36
has at least 25 health care providers who routinely provide 37
health care services directly to patients; 38
g. A committee of the Department of Children and Families 39
or a managing entity as defined in s. 394.9082(2), which may 40
include includes employees or, agents of, or consultants to the 41
department or managing entity and any other persons the 42
department or managing entity deems as deemed necessary to 43
provide peer review, utilization review, or and mortality review 44
of treatment services provided pursuant to chapters 394, 397, 45
and 916; 46
h. A committee of a mental health treatment facility 47
licensed under chapter 394 or a community mental health center 48
as defined in s. 394.907, provided the quality assurance program 49
operates pursuant to the guidelines that have been approved by 50

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the governing board of the agency; 51
i. A committee of a substance abuse treatment and 52
education prevention program licensed under chapter 397 provided 53
the quality assurance program operates pursuant to the 54
guidelines that have been approved by the governing board of the 55
agency; 56
j. A peer review or utilization review committee organized 57
under chapter 440; 58
k. A committee of the Department of Health, a county 59
health department, healthy start coalition, or certified rural 60
health network, when reviewing quality of care, or employees of 61
these entities when reviewing mortality records; or 62
l. A continuous quality improvement committee of a 63
pharmacy licensed pursuant to chapter 465, 64
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which committee is formed to evaluate and improve the quality of 66
health care rendered by providers of health service, to 67
determine whether that health services rendered were 68
professionally indicated or were performed in compliance with 69
the applicable standard of care, or whether that the cost of 70
health care rendered was considered reasonable by the providers 71
of professional health services in the area; or 72
2. A committee of an insurer, self-insurer, or joint 73
underwriting association of medical malpractice insurance, or 74
other persons conducting review under s. 766.106. 75

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(5) The investigations, proceedings, and records of a 76
committee as described in the preceding subsections are shall 77
not be subject to discovery or introduction into evidence in any 78
civil or administrative action against a provider of 79
professional health services or a managing entity arising out of 80
the matters which are the subject of evaluation and review by 81
such committee, and any no person who was in attendance at a 82
meeting of such committee is not sha