No. CS/HB 1207
Filed under Healthcare.
Ambulatory Surgical Centers; Provides penalty for failure by ambulatory surgical center to timely provide good faith estimate; requires AHCA to notify Division of Law Revision upon adoption of certain federal rules.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDAmbulatory surgical centers that miss the deadline for a required good-faith cost estimate now face a $250-per-day fine, capped at $2,500 per patient estimate, a separate and lower track from hospitals' fine.
The underlying duty to give patients a good-faith estimate is not changed by this bill; only the fine for missing that deadline is newly split by facility type, and hospitals' existing $1,000-per-day, $10,000-capped fine stays the same.
None of these changes take effect until federal health, labor, and treasury regulators finalize a rule on good-faith estimates under the Public Health Service Act, after which the state agency must notify Florida's Division of Law Revision.
AICreates a new penalty, item 7, so an ambulatory surgical center that fails to timely provide a required good-faith cost estimate is fined $250 per day until the estimate is provided, capped at $2,500 per patient estimate.
AIMakes the two fine provisions inoperative until the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury jointly finalize a rule on good-faith estimates under the Public Health Service Act, at which point the state agency must notify the Division of Law Revision.
AIAmends the existing fine provision, item 6, to specify that its $1,000-per-day fine, capped at $10,000 per patient estimate, applies specifically to a violation by a hospital, rather than to any covered facility as before.