Florida Statutes Title XXXII Chapter 459 - Osteopathic Medicine

• 459.001 - Purpose.
  The Legislature recognizes that the practice of osteopathic medicine is potentially dangerous to the public if conducted by unsafe and incompetent practitioners. The Legislature finds...
• 459.002 - Chapter Not Applicable To Practice Of Medicine, Surgery, Chiropractic Medicine, Etc.
  (1) The provisions of this chapter shall have no application to:(a) Duly licensed health care practitioners, other than osteopathic physicians and their physician assistants, acting within their...
• 459.003 - Definitions.
  As used in this chapter:(1) “Board” means the Board of Osteopathic Medicine.(2) “Department” means the Department of Health.(3) “Practice of osteopathic medicine” means the diagnosis, treatment, operation, or...
• 459.004 - Board Of Osteopathic Medicine.
  (1) There is created within the department the Board of Osteopathic Medicine, composed of seven members appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate.(2) Five members...
• 459.005 - Rulemaking Authority.
  (1) The board has authority to adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to implement the provisions of this chapter conferring duties upon it.(2) A physician...
• 459.0055 - General Licensure Requirements.
  (1) Except as otherwise provided herein, any person desiring to be licensed or certified as an osteopathic physician pursuant to this chapter shall:(a) Complete an application form...
• 459.0066 - Expert Witness Certificate.
  (1)(a) The department shall issue a certificate authorizing a physician who holds an active and valid license to practice osteopathic medicine in another state or a...
• 459.0075 - Limited Licenses.
  (1) Any person desiring to obtain a limited license shall:(a) Submit to the board a licensure application and fee required by this chapter. However, an osteopathic physician...
• 459.0076 - Temporary Certificate For Practice In Areas Of Critical Need.
  (1) A physician who is licensed to practice in any jurisdiction of the United States, whose license is currently valid, and who pays an application fee...
• 459.00761 - Temporary Certificate For Active Duty Military And Veterans Practicing In Areas Of Critical Need.
  (1) A certificate issued pursuant to this section may be cited as the “Rear Admiral LeRoy Collins, Jr., Temporary Certificate for Practice in Areas of Critical...
• 459.0077 - Osteopathic Faculty Certificate.
  (1) The department may issue an osteopathic faculty certificate without examination to an individual who remits an application fee, as set by the board, who demonstrates...
• 459.008 - Renewal Of Licenses And Certificates.
  (1) The department shall renew a license or certificate upon receipt of the renewal application and fee. An applicant for a renewed license must also submit...
• 459.0081 - Physician Survey.
  (1) Each person who applies for licensure renewal as a physician under chapter 458 or this chapter must, in conjunction with the renewal of such license...
• 459.0082 - Analysis Of Survey Results; Report.
  (1) Each year, the Department of Health shall analyze the results of the physician survey required by s. 459.0081 and determine by geographic area and specialty...
• 459.0083 - Confidentiality Of Certain Information Contained In Physician Workforce Surveys.
  All personal identifying information contained in records provided by physicians licensed under chapter 458 or this chapter in response to physician workforce surveys required as...
• 459.0085 - Financial Responsibility.
  (1) As a condition of licensing and maintaining an active license, and prior to the issuance or renewal of an active license or reactivation of an...
• 459.009 - Inactive Status.
  (1) A license or certificate that has become inactive may be reactivated under s. 459.008 or s. 459.022 upon application to the department. The board shall...
• 459.0092 - Fees.
  The board shall set fees according to the following schedule:(1) The fee for application or certification pursuant to ss. 459.0055(2), 459.0075, and 459.0077 shall not exceed...
• 459.011 - Privileges, Obligations, And Status Of Osteopathic Physicians.
  (1) Osteopathic physicians shall observe and be subject to all state and municipal regulations relative to reporting births and deaths and all matters pertaining to the...
• 459.012 - Itemized Patient Statement.
  Whenever an osteopathic physician licensed under this chapter renders professional services to a patient, the osteopathic physician is required, upon request, to submit to the...
• 459.0122 - Patient Records; Termination Of Osteopathic Physician’s Practice.
  The board shall provide by rule for the handling of the medical records of an osteopathic physician licensed under this chapter which pertain to the...
• 459.0125 - Breast Cancer; Information On Treatment Alternatives.
  (1) DEFINITION.—As used in this section, the term “medically viable,” as applied to treatment alternatives, means modes of treatment generally considered by the medical profession to...
• 459.013 - Penalty For Violations.
  (1) Each of the following acts constitutes a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084:(a) The practice of...
• 459.0135 - Drugs To Treat Obesity; Rules Establishing Guidelines.
  The Board of Osteopathic Medicine shall adopt rules to establish practice guidelines for physicians to safely prescribe phentermine, fenfluramine, and other drugs used to treat...
• 459.0137 - Pain-management Clinics.
  (1) REGISTRATION.—(a)1. As used in this section, the term:a. “Board eligible” means successful completion of an anesthesia, physical medicine and rehabilitation, rheumatology, or neurology residency program approved by...
• 459.0141 - Sexual Misconduct In The Practice Of Osteopathic Medicine.
  The osteopathic physician-patient relationship is founded on mutual trust. Sexual misconduct in the practice of osteopathic medicine means violation of the osteopathic physician-patient relationship through...
• 459.0145 - Concerted Effort To Refuse Emergency Room Treatment To Patients; Penalties.
  (1) A physician licensed pursuant to this chapter may not instigate or engage in a concerted effort to refuse or get physicians to refuse to render...
• 459.015 - Grounds For Disciplinary Action; Action By The Board And Department.
  (1) The following acts constitute grounds for denial of a license or disciplinary action, as specified in s. 456.072(2):(a) Attempting to obtain, obtaining, or renewing a license...
• 459.0151 - Emergency Procedures For Disciplinary Action.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no later than 30 days after a third report of a professional liability claim against a...
• 459.0152 - Specialties.
  An osteopathic physician licensed under this chapter may not hold himself or herself out as a board-certified specialist unless the osteopathic physician has successfully completed...
• 459.016 - Reports Of Disciplinary Actions By Medical Organizations.
  (1) The department shall be notified when any osteopathic physician:(a) Has been removed or suspended or has had any other disciplinary action taken by her or his...
• 459.017 - Osteopathic Physician’s Consent; Handwriting Samples; Mental Or Physical Examinations.
  Every osteopathic physician who accepts a license or certificate to practice osteopathic medicine in this state shall, by so accepting the license or certificate or...
• 459.018 - Search Warrants For Certain Violations.
  When the department has reason to believe that violations of s. 459.015(1)(t) or (u) have occurred or are occurring, its agents or other duly authorized...
• 459.019 - Subpoena Of Certain Records.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 456.057, the department may issue subpoenas duces tecum requiring the names and addresses of some or all of the patients...
• 459.021 - Registration Of Resident Physicians, Interns, And Fellows; List Of Hospital Employees; Penalty.
  (1) Any person who holds a degree of Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from a college of osteopathic medicine recognized and approved by the American Osteopathic Association...
• 459.022 - Physician Assistants.
  (1) LEGISLATIVE INTENT.—(a) The purpose of this section is to encourage more effective utilization of the skills of osteopathic physicians or groups of osteopathic physicians by enabling...
• 459.023 - Anesthesiologist Assistants.
  (1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the term:(a) “Anesthesiologist” means an osteopathic physician who holds an active, unrestricted license; who has successfully completed an anesthesiology training program...
• 459.025 - Formal Supervisory Relationships, Standing Orders, And Established Protocols; Notice; Standards.
  (1) NOTICE.—(a) When an osteopathic physician enters into a formal supervisory relationship or standing orders with an emergency medical technician or paramedic licensed pursuant to s. 401.27,...
• 459.026 - Reports Of Adverse Incidents In Office Practice Settings.
  (1) Any adverse incident that occurs on or after January 1, 2000, in any office maintained by an osteopathic physician for the practice of osteopathic medicine...

Last modified: September 23, 2016