TALLAHASSEE — High-profile Florida hospitals are lining up to battle over a new state proposal about approving organ-transplant programs.

Nemours Children’s Hospital last week moved to intervene at the state Division of Administrative Hearings to support a proposed transplant-programs rule issued in August by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration. That came after Memorial Healthcare System in Broward County and AdventHealth Orlando intervened to support the proposed rule.

Tampa General Hospital, UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville and Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami filed challenges last month to the rule, alleging it does not include adequate safeguards for quality of care. Administrative Law Judge Joshua Pratt has scheduled a three-day hearing, starting Dec. 17, t

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