eLaws of Florida

 

  CHAPTER 456. HEALTH PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS: GENERAL PROVISIONS  


SECTION 456.001. Definitions.
SECTION 456.002. Applicability.
SECTION 456.003. Legislative intent; requirements.
SECTION 456.004. Department; powers and duties.
SECTION 456.005. Long-range policy planning.
SECTION 456.006. Contacting boards through department.
SECTION 456.007. Board members.
SECTION 456.008. Accountability and liability of board members.
SECTION 456.009. Legal and investigative services.
SECTION 456.011. Boards; organization; meetings; compensation and travel expenses.
SECTION 456.012. Board rules; final agency action; challenges.
SECTION 456.013. Department; general licensing provisions.
SECTION 456.0135. General background screening provisions.
SECTION 456.014. Public inspection of information required from applicants; exceptions; examination hearing.
SECTION 456.015. Limited licenses.
SECTION 456.016. Use of professional testing services.
SECTION 456.017. Examinations.
SECTION 456.018. Penalty for theft or reproduction of an examination.
SECTION 456.019. Restriction on requirement of citizenship.
SECTION 456.021. Qualification of immigrants for examination to practice a licensed profession or occupation.
SECTION 456.022. Foreign-trained professionals; special examination and license provisions.
SECTION 456.023. Exemption for certain out-of-state or foreign professionals; limited practice permitted.
SECTION 456.024. Members of Armed Forces in good standing with administrative boards or the department; spouses; licensure.
SECTION 456.0241. Temporary certificate for active duty military health care practitioners.
SECTION 456.025. Fees; receipts; disposition.
SECTION 456.026. Annual report concerning finances, administrative complaints, disciplinary actions, and recommendations.
SECTION 456.027. Education; accreditation.
SECTION 456.028. Consultation with postsecondary education boards prior to adoption of changes to training requirements.
SECTION 456.029. Education; substituting demonstration of competency for clock-hour requirements.
SECTION 456.0301. Requirement for instruction on controlled substance prescribing.
SECTION 456.031. Requirement for instruction on domestic violence.
SECTION 456.032. Hepatitis B or HIV carriers.
SECTION 456.033. Requirement for instruction for certain licensees on HIV and AIDS.
SECTION 456.0341. Requirements for instruction on human trafficking.
SECTION 456.035. Address of record.
SECTION 456.036. Licenses; active and inactive status; delinquency.
SECTION 456.0361. Compliance with continuing education requirements.
SECTION 456.037. Business establishments; requirements for active status licenses; delinquency; discipline; applicability.
SECTION 456.038. Renewal and cancellation notices.
SECTION 456.039. Designated health care professionals; information required for licensure.
SECTION 456.0391. Advanced practice registered nurses; information required for licensure.
SECTION 456.0392. Prescription labeling.
SECTION 456.041. Practitioner profile; creation.
SECTION 456.042. Practitioner profiles; update.
SECTION 456.043. Practitioner profiles; data storage.
SECTION 456.044. Practitioner profiles; rules; workshops.
SECTION 456.045. Practitioner profiles; maintenance of superseded information.
SECTION 456.046. Practitioner profiles; confidentiality.
SECTION 456.048. Financial responsibility requirements for certain health care practitioners.
SECTION 456.049. Health care practitioners; reports on professional liability claims and actions.
SECTION 456.0495. Reporting adverse incidents occurring in planned out-of-hospital births.
SECTION 456.0496. Provision of information on eye and vision disorders to parents during planned out-of-hospital births.
SECTION 456.051. Reports of professional liability actions; bankruptcies; Department of Health’s responsibility to provide.
SECTION 456.052. Disclosure of financial interest by production.
SECTION 456.053. Financial arrangements between referring health care providers and providers of health care services.
SECTION 456.054. Kickbacks prohibited.
SECTION 456.055. Chiropractic and podiatric health care; denial of payment; limitation.
SECTION 456.056. Treatment of Medicare beneficiaries; refusal, emergencies, consulting physicians.
SECTION 456.057. Ownership and control of patient records; report or copies of records to be furnished; disclosure of information.
SECTION 456.0575. Duty to notify patients.
SECTION 456.058. Disposition of records of deceased practitioners or practitioners relocating or terminating practice.
SECTION 456.059. Communications confidential; exceptions.
SECTION 456.061. Practitioner disclosure of confidential information; immunity from civil or criminal liability.
SECTION 456.062. Advertisement by a health care practitioner of free or discounted services; required statement.
SECTION 456.063. Sexual misconduct; disqualification for license, certificate, or registration.
SECTION 456.0635. Health care fraud; disqualification for license, certificate, or registration.
SECTION 456.065. Unlicensed practice of a health care profession; intent; cease and desist notice; penalties; enforcement; citations; fees; allocation and disposition of moneys collected.
SECTION 456.066. Prosecution of criminal violations.
SECTION 456.067. Penalty for giving false information.
SECTION 456.068. Toll-free telephone number for reporting of complaints.
SECTION 456.069. Authority to inspect.
SECTION 456.071. Power to administer oaths, take depositions, and issue subpoenas.
SECTION 456.072. Grounds for discipline; penalties; enforcement.
SECTION 456.073. Disciplinary proceedings.
SECTION 456.074. Certain health care practitioners; immediate suspension of license.
SECTION 456.075. Criminal proceedings against licensees; appearances by department representatives.
SECTION 456.076. Impaired practitioner programs.
SECTION 456.077. Authority to issue citations.
SECTION 456.078. Mediation.
SECTION 456.079. Disciplinary guidelines.
SECTION 456.081. Publication of information.
SECTION 456.082. Disclosure of confidential information.
SECTION 456.36. Health care professionals; exemption from disqualification from employment or contracting.
SECTION 456.38. Practitioner registry for disasters and emergencies.
SECTION 456.41. Complementary or alternative health care treatments.
SECTION 456.42. Written prescriptions for medicinal drugs.
SECTION 456.43. Electronic prescribing for medicinal drugs.
SECTION 456.44. Controlled substance prescribing.
SECTION 456.47. Use of telehealth to provide services.
SECTION 456.50. Repeated medical malpractice.
SECTION 456.51. Consent for pelvic examinations.