Bill Text: FL S0218 | 2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Medical Expenses/Inmates/County or Municipality [EPSC]

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Messages [S0218 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S0218-Comm_Sub.html

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Florida Senate - 2010                CS for CS for CS for SB 218 
 
By the Policy and Steering Committee on Ways and Means; the 
Committees on Health Regulation; and Community Affairs; and 
Senator Jones 
576-04453-10                                           2010218c3 
1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to medical expenses of inmates paid by 
3         a county or municipality; amending s. 901.35, F.S.; 
4         requiring that payments made by a county or 
5         municipality to a provider for certain services for an 
6         arrested person be made at a certain percentage of the 
7         Medicare allowable rate; providing that this maximum 
8         allowable cap does not apply to physician payments for 
9         emergency services provided within a hospital 
10         emergency department; providing an effective date. 
11 
12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
13 
14         Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 901.35, Florida 
15  Statutes, is amended to read: 
16         901.35 Financial responsibility for medical expenses.— 
17         (2) Upon a showing that reimbursement from the sources 
18  listed in subsection (1) is not available, the costs of medical 
19  care, treatment, hospitalization, and transportation shall be 
20  paid: 
21         (a) From the general fund of the county in which the person 
22  was arrested, if the arrest was for violation of a state law or 
23  county ordinance; or 
24         (b) From the municipal general fund, if the arrest was for 
25  violation of a municipal ordinance. 
26 
27  The responsibility of a county or municipality to pay for 
28  payment of such medical costs is limited to services provided 
29  during the time that the arrested person is in shall exist until 
30  such time as an arrested person is released from the custody of 
31  the arresting agency. Absent a formal written agreement between 
32  a county, municipality, or law enforcement entity and a 
33  provider, any payments made from county or municipal general 
34  funds to a provider under this section for medical care, 
35  treatment, hospitalization, and transportation of an arrested 
36  person shall be made at 110 percent of the Medicare allowable 
37  rate for such services. This maximum allowable cap does not 
38  apply to payments to physicians licensed under chapter 458 or 
39  chapter 459 for emergency services provided within a hospital 
40  emergency department. 
41         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.