Title: Adult Cardiovascular Care Standards

Summary: Revising requirements for rules the Agency for Health Care Administration is required to adopt, to allow a Level I Adult Cardiovascular Services program to use certain additional tools in the treatment of adult percutaneous cardiac intervention, etc.

Full Text:
An act relating to adult cardiovascular care standards; amending s. 395.1055, F.S.; revising requirements for rules the Agency for Health Care Administration is required to adopt, to allow a Level I Adult Cardiovascular Services program to use certain additional tools in the treatment of adult percutaneous cardiac intervention; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (18) of section 395.1055, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 395.1055 Rules and enforcement.  (18) In establishing rules for adult cardiovascular services, the agency shall include provisions that allow for: (a) The establishment of two hospital program licensure levels, a Level I program that authorizes the performance of adult percutaneous cardiac intervention without onsite cardiac surgery,including rotational or other atherectomy devices, electrophysiology, and treatment of chronic total occlusions, and a Level II program that authorizes the performance of percutaneous cardiac intervention with onsite cardiac surgery. Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.