Florida Statute 154.302 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2024 Florida Statutes (including 2025 Special Session C)

Title XI
COUNTY ORGANIZATION AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

Chapter 154
PUBLIC HEALTH FACILITIES

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F.S. 154.302

154.302 Legislative intent.—The Legislature finds that certain hospitals provide a disproportionate share of charity care for persons who are indigent, not able to pay their medical bills, and not eligible for government-funded programs. The burden of absorbing the cost of this uncompensated charity care is borne by the hospital, the private pay patients, and, many times, by the taxpayers in the county when the hospital is subsidized by tax revenues. The Legislature further finds that it is inequitable for hospitals and taxpayers of one county to be expected to subsidize the care of out-of-county indigent persons. Finally, the Legislature declares that the state and the counties must share the responsibility of assuring that adequate and affordable health care is available to all Floridians. Therefore, it is the intent of the Legislature to place the ultimate financial obligation for the out-of-county hospital care of qualified indigent patients on the county in which the indigent patient resides.

History.—s. 3, ch. 77-455; s. 7, ch. 88-294; s. 3, ch. 98-191.

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Amendments to 154.302

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Cases Citing Statute 154.302

Total Results: 5

City of Jacksonville v. C.J. Ventures, Inc.

558 So. 2d 133, 1990 Fla. App. LEXIS 1577, 1990 WL 25937

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Mar 12, 1990 | Docket: 64648769

Published

served and consumed on the premises. Under section 154.302, persons operating bona fide restaurants under

Ago

Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Nov 6, 1989 | Docket: 3256881

Published

). 3 Section 154.301, F.S. (1988 Supp.). 4 Section 154.302, F.S. (1988 Supp.). See also, s. 154.306, F

Dade County v. American Hosp. of Miami, Inc.

502 So. 2d 1230, 12 Fla. L. Weekly 48, 1987 Fla. LEXIS 1376

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Jan 6, 1987 | Docket: 1180883

Published

County, 160 Fla. 892, 37 So.2d 248 (1948); (2) section 154.302, Florida Statutes (1981); and, (3) section

Dade County v. American Hospital of Miami, Inc.

463 So. 2d 232, 10 Fla. L. Weekly 520, 1984 Fla. App. LEXIS 12565

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Apr 3, 1984 | Docket: 64609836

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1968 Constitution of the State of Florida.2 Section 154.302, Florida Statutes (1981), provides that “[i]t

St. Mary's Hospital v. Okeechobee County Board of County Commissioners

442 So. 2d 1044, 1983 Fla. App. LEXIS 25114, 3 Soc. Serv. Rev. 1099

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Dec 14, 1983 | Docket: 64601812

Published

see it, the legislative intent announced in Section 154.302, Florida Statutes (1981), is basically repeated