Bill Text: FL S0434 | 2019 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Ambulatory Surgical Centers
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Failed) 2019-05-03 - Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 843 (Ch. 2019-138) [S0434 Detail]
Download: Florida-2019-S0434-Comm_Sub.html
Florida Senate - 2019 CS for SB 434 By the Committee on Health Policy; and Senator Harrell 588-02473-19 2019434c1 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to ambulatory surgical centers; 3 amending s. 395.002, F.S.; revising the definition of 4 the term “ambulatory surgical center”; amending s. 5 395.1055, F.S.; requiring the Agency for Health Care 6 Administration, in consultation with the Board of 7 Medicine and the Board of Osteopathic Medicine, to 8 adopt rules that establish requirements related to the 9 delivery of surgical care to children in ambulatory 10 surgical centers, in accordance with specified 11 standards; specifying that ambulatory surgical centers 12 may provide certain procedures only if authorized by 13 agency rule; providing an effective date. 14 15 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 16 17 Section 1. Subsection (3) of section 395.002, Florida 18 Statutes, is amended to read: 19 395.002 Definitions.—As used in this chapter: 20 (3) “Ambulatory surgical center” means a facility the 21 primary purpose of which is to provide elective surgical care, 22 in which the patient is admitted to and discharged from such 23 facility within 24 hoursthe same working day and is not24permitted to stay overnight, and which is not part of a 25 hospital. However, a facility existing for the primary purpose 26 of performing terminations of pregnancy, an office maintained by 27 a physician for the practice of medicine, or an office 28 maintained for the practice of dentistry may not be construed to 29 be an ambulatory surgical center, provided that any facility or 30 office which is certified or seeks certification as a Medicare 31 ambulatory surgical center shall be licensed as an ambulatory 32 surgical center pursuant to s. 395.003. 33 Section 2. Present subsections (3) through (12) of section 34 395.1055, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (4) 35 through (13), respectively, and a new subsection (3) is added to 36 that section, to read: 37 395.1055 Rules and enforcement.— 38 (3)(a) The agency, in consultation with the Board of 39 Medicine and the Board of Osteopathic Medicine, shall adopt 40 rules that establish requirements to ensure the safe and 41 effective delivery of surgical care to children in ambulatory 42 surgical centers. The rules must be consistent with the American 43 College of Surgeons’ 2015 standards document entitled “Optimal 44 Resources for Children’s Surgical Care” and must establish 45 minimum standards for pediatric patient care in ambulatory 46 surgical centers. 47 (b) Ambulatory surgical centers may provide operative 48 procedures that require a length of stay past midnight on the 49 day of surgery for children younger than 18 years of age only if 50 the agency authorizes the performance of such procedures by 51 rule. 52 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.