Posts Tagged ‘Florida Department of Health’
COVID-19 Waivers Creating Some Confusion
There’s been some confusion over licensing requirements for out-of-state healthcare professionals in the state of Florida. It started in March, when Florida’s Surgeon General, Dr. Scott Rivkees, signed off on Emergency Order 20-002, which allowed healthcare professionals, advanced life support professionals and basic life support professionals holding a valid, unrestricted and unencumbered license in any…
Read MorePhysicians: Abandoning medical records can get you in trouble
The Florida Board of Medicine recently announced that there has been an increase in the number of reports concerning abandoned medical records. Physicians are either closing or relocating their practices and no longer caring for a certain population of patients. Although there are rules and statutes in place that govern the amount of time physicians…
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