Bill Would Raise Pay for Doctors Treating Cops, Firefighters

Florida lawmakers are deliberating a proposal to allow police and firefighters with presumptive injuries to select a medical specialist for treatment and to pay the selected doctor up to twice the rate authorized by Medicare. The Senate Criminal Justice Committee on Tuesday voted 8-0 to pass its bill, SB 808, which would create an exception to the typical process of selecting a doctor for firefighters, law enforcement officers, correctional workers and probation officers with tuberculosis, heart disease and hypertension that was presumed to arise from employment. An identical companion measu...