CS for CS for SB 1884 - Health Regulation Summary

• Clarifies that nursing home transfer and discharge procedures under s. 400.0255 are exclusive to residents of nursing homes licensed under part II of chapter 400, superseding general landlord-tenant law provisions.

• Removes laboratory monthly reporting requirements to the Agency for Health Care Administration regarding employee and job applicant drug testing under the Drug-Free Workplace Act.

• Designates the Florida Hospital/Sanford-Burnham Translational Research Institute for Metabolism and Diabetes as a state resource for diabetes prevention and treatment research.

• Allows specialty-licensed children's hospitals with at least 50 neonatal intensive care unit beds to provide obstetrical services restricted to high-risk pregnancies and cases where the fetus will require perinatal intervention.

• Establishes the Uniform Health Carrier External Review Model Act for individual and group health insurance policies, creates penalties for falsifying or altering license certificates, and implements various administrative changes to health care facility licensing, Medicaid pharmaceutical programs, and clinical laboratory regulations.