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2010 Florida Code
TITLE XXXII REGULATION OF PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS
Chapter 456 HEALTH PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS: GENERAL PROVISIONS
456.001 Definitions.456.002 Applicability.
456.003 Legislative intent; requirements.
456.004 Department; powers and duties.
456.005 Long-range policy planning.
456.006 Contacting boards through department.
456.007 Board members.
456.008 Accountability and liability of board members.
456.009 Legal and investigative services.
456.011 Boards; organization; meetings; compensation and travel expenses.
456.012 Board rules; final agency action; challenges.
456.013 Department; general licensing provisions.
456.014 Public inspection of information required from applicants; exceptions; examination hearing.
456.015 Limited licenses.
456.016 Use of professional testing services.
456.017 Examinations.
456.018 Penalty for theft or reproduction of an examination.
456.019 Restriction on requirement of citizenship.
456.021 Qualification of immigrants for examination to practice a licensed profession or occupation.
456.022 Foreign-trained professionals; special examination and license provisions.
456.023 Exemption for certain out-of-state or foreign professionals; limited practice permitted.
456.024 Members of Armed Forces in good standing with administrative boards or the department; spouses.
456.025 Fees; receipts; disposition.
456.026 Annual report concerning finances, administrative complaints, disciplinary actions, and recommendations.
456.027 Education; accreditation.
456.028 Consultation with postsecondary education boards prior to adoption of changes to training requirements.
456.029 Education; substituting demonstration of competency for clock-hour requirements.
456.031 Requirement for instruction on domestic violence.
456.032 Hepatitis B or HIV carriers.
456.033 Requirement for instruction for certain licensees on HIV and AIDS.
456.034 Athletic trainers and massage therapists; requirement for instruction on HIV and AIDS.
456.035 Address of record.
456.036 Licenses; active and inactive status; delinquency.
456.037 Business establishments; requirements for active status licenses; delinquency; discipline; applicability.
456.038 Renewal and cancellation notices.
456.039 Designated health care professionals; information required for licensure.
456.0391 Advanced registered nurse practitioners; information required for certification.
456.0392 Prescription labeling.
456.041 Practitioner profile; creation.
456.042 Practitioner profiles; update.
456.043 Practitioner profiles; data storage.
456.044 Practitioner profiles; rules; workshops.
456.045 Practitioner profiles; maintenance of superseded information.
456.046 Practitioner profiles; confidentiality.
456.048 Financial responsibility requirements for certain health care practitioners.
456.049 Health care practitioners; reports on professional liability claims and actions.
456.051 Reports of professional liability actions; bankruptcies; Department of Health’s responsibility to provide.
456.052 Disclosure of financial interest by production.
456.053 Financial arrangements between referring health care providers and providers of health care services.
456.054 Kickbacks prohibited.
456.055 Chiropractic and podiatric health care; denial of payment; limitation.
456.056 Treatment of Medicare beneficiaries; refusal, emergencies, consulting physicians.
456.057 Ownership and control of patient records; report or copies of records to be furnished.
456.0575 Duty to notify patients.
456.058 Disposition of records of deceased practitioners or practitioners relocating or terminating practice.
456.059 Communications confidential; exceptions.
456.061 Practitioner disclosure of confidential information; immunity from civil or criminal liability.
456.062 Advertisement by a health care practitioner of free or discounted services; required statement.
456.063 Sexual misconduct; disqualification for license, certificate, or registration.
456.0635 Medicaid fraud; disqualification for license, certificate, or registration.
456.065 Unlicensed practice of a health care profession; intent; cease and desist notice; penalties; enforcement; citations; fees; allocation and disposition of moneys collected.
456.066 Prosecution of criminal violations.
456.067 Penalty for giving false information.
456.068 Toll-free telephone number for reporting of complaints.
456.069 Authority to inspect.
456.071 Power to administer oaths, take depositions, and issue subpoenas.
456.072 Grounds for discipline; penalties; enforcement.
456.0721 Practitioners in default on student loan or scholarship obligations; investigation; report.
456.073 Disciplinary proceedings.
456.074 Certain health care practitioners; immediate suspension of license.
456.075 Criminal proceedings against licensees; appearances by department representatives.
456.076 Treatment programs for impaired practitioners.
456.077 Authority to issue citations.
456.078 Mediation.
456.079 Disciplinary guidelines.
456.081 Publication of information.
456.082 Disclosure of confidential information.
456.36 Health care professionals; exemption from disqualification from employment or contracting.
456.38 Practitioner registry for disasters and emergencies.
456.41 Complementary or alternative health care treatments.
456.42 Written prescriptions for medicinal drugs.
456.43 Electronic prescribing for medicinal drugs.
456.50 Repeated medical malpractice.
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