Florida HB 4001: Riviera Beach Utilities Special District Intracoastal Essential Force Main Replacement

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An act relating to Jefferson County; providing 2
applicability; providing definitions; limiting 3
compensation to a health care provider that provides 4
medical services for an inmate housed in a Jefferson 5
County detention center if the provider does not have 6
a contract with the county to provide such services; 7
limiting compensation to an entity that provides 8
emergency medical transportation services for an 9
inmate housed in a Jefferson County detention center 10
if the entity does not have a contract with the county 11
to provide such services; providing applicability; 12
providing an effective date. 13
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Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 15
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Section 1. (1) Notwithstanding any other law to the 17
contrary, this act and all rules adopted pursuant to this act 18
apply to the area located within Jefferson County. 19
(2) As used in this act, the term: 20
(a) "Emergency medical transportation services" includes, 21
but is not limited to, services rendered by means of air 22
ambulance or an emergency medical services vehicle. As used in 23
this paragraph, the term: 24
1. "Air ambulance" means a fixed-wing or rotary-wing 25

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aircraft used for, or intended to be used for, air 26
transportation of sick or injured persons requiring or likely to 27
require medical attention during transport. 28
2. "Emergency medical services vehicle" means a privately 29
or publicly owned vehicle or vessel that is designed, 30
constructed, reconstructed, maintained, equipped, or operated 31
for, and is used or intended to be used for, land or water 32
transportation of sick or injured persons requiring or likely to 33
require medical attention during transport. 34
(b) "Health care provider" means: 35
1. A hospital licensed under chapter 395, Florida 36
Statutes. 37
2. A physician or physician assistant licensed under 38
chapter 458, Florida Statutes. 39
3. An osteopathic physician or physician assistant 40
licensed under chapter 459, Florida Statutes. 41
4. A podiatric physician licensed under chapter 461, 42
Florida Statutes. 43
5. A health maintenance organization certificated under 44
part I of chapter 641, Florida Statutes. 45
6. An ambulatory surgical center licensed under chapter 46
395, Florida Statutes. 47
7. An other medical facility. As used in this 48
subparagraph, the term "other medical facility" means a facility 49
the primary purpose of which is to provide human medical 50

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diagnostic services or a facility providing nonsurgical human 51
medical treatment, to which facility the patient is admitted and 52
from which facility the patient is discharged within the same 53
working day, and which facility is not part of a hospital. 54
However, the term does not include a facility existing for the 55
primary purpose of performing terminations of pregnancy or an 56
office maintained by a physician or dentist for the practice of 57
medicine. 58
8. A professional association, partnership, corporation, 59
joint venture, or other association composed of the persons 60
described in subparagraphs 2., 3., and 4. for professional 61
activity. 62
(3)(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), compensation 63
to a health care provider to provide medical services for an 64
inmate housed in a Jefferson County detention center may not 65
exceed 110 percent of the Medicare allowable rate if the health 66
care provider does not have a contract with Jefferson County to 67
provide inmate medical services. 68
(b) Compensation to a health care provider to provide 69
medical services for an inmate housed in a Jefferson County 70
detention center may not exceed 125 percent of the Medicare 71
allowable rate if the health care provider: 72
1. Does not have a contract with Jefferson County to 73
provide inmate medical services; and 74
2. Reported a negative operating margin for the previous 75

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year to the Agency for Health Care Administration through 76
hospital-audited financial data. 77
(4) Compensation to an entity to provide emergency medical 78
transportation services for an inmate housed in a Jefferson 79
County detention center may not exceed 110 percent of the 80
Medicare allowable rate if the entity does not have a contract 81
with Jefferson County to provide i