Christopher L. Nuland, Esq. March 28, 2019 As we approach the halfway point of the 2019 Legislative Session, it has become abundantly clear that the House and Senate have very different health care agendas. In the House, scope of practice issues have dominated, as the health care committees have been committed to passing independent practice bills for Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants, as well as allowing Pharmacists to diagnose and prescribe. The Senate, on the other hand, has not...
Month: March 2019
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The second week of the Legislative Session produced a series of initiatives that could drastically affect each and every physician’s practice in the Sate of Florida. The Good On Monday the Senate Health Policy Committee adopted a comprehensive rewrite of SB 732, which governs office surgery. As originally written, this bill would have required virtually every physician office in the State to become licensed as an ambulatory surgical center. As a result, of the amendment, only facilities that...