Bill > S1276

This bill, titled "Trauma Service Centers," aims to modify Florida's trauma care system by imposing a cap of $15,000 on trauma activation fees charged by hospitals, a provision set to expire on July 1, 2015. It also mandates that the Department of Health convene the Florida Trauma System Plan Advisory Council by October 1, 2014, to review a specific report from the American College of Surgeons and make recommendations for statutory changes by February 1, 2015; this council will consist of nine representatives from various healthcare and patient advocacy groups. Furthermore, the bill removes a provision that allowed hospitals to protest decisions made by the department regarding trauma center applications and restricts the department from verifying, designating, or provisionally approving hospitals as trauma centers through existing procedures, a restriction also set to expire on July 1, 2015.