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SF 2080 Senate Long Description

E Relating to health; requiring and providing for the licensing and + regulation of outpatient surgical centers under hospital licensing and +regulation provisions by the commissioner of health, defining outpatient +surgical center and setting the annual license fee, exempting outpatient surgical +centers licensed as part of a hospital from the separate licensing +requirement; specifying certain standards for nursing care required for licensure;+ requiring the commissioner to require diagnostic imaging facilities to annually+ report utilization and the names of individuals with financial or economic +interest in the facility to the commissioner, defining diagnostic imaging +facility and granting the commissioner certain records inspection authority; +expanding certain portions of the patients bill of rights to persons receiving +health care services at outpatient surgical centers; requiring and providing+ for health care providers to disclose financial or economic interest or +employment or contractual arrangements limiting referral options with hospitals, outpatient surgical centers or diagnostic imaging facilities to +patients upon referral to the facilities and to post notice of the interests or +arrangements in facility reception areas or waiting rooms, defining financial +interest, authorizing commissioner license nonrenewal, suspension or revocation+ for failure to comply; expanding certain hospital or outpatient surgical +center reporting requirements; expanding the grounds for discipline by the +board of medical practice relating to failure of physicians to disclose +financial interest upon referral of patients to health care providers to +economic interest; expanding the definition of vendor of medical care under +the medical assistance (MA) program to ambulatory surgical center services; providing coverage under the MinnesotaCare program limited benefit +set for freestanding ambulatory surgical center services; appropriating money+ received by the commissioner from nonstate sources to operate the adverse +health care events reporting system in fiscal year 2005 to the commissioner and appropriating annual outpatient surgical center licensing fees to +the commissioner for surgical centers regulation purposes (ra, ja)