Legislative findings; intent - ANSWER The sole legislative purpose for enacting this chapter is to ensure that every chiropractic physician practicing in this state meets minimum requirements for safe practice. It is the
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Legislative findings; intent - ANSWER The sole legislative purpose for enacting this chapter is to ensure that every chiropractic physician practicing in this state meets minimum requirements for safe practice. It is the legislative intent that chiropractic physicians who fall below minimum competency or who otherwise present a danger to the public health be prohibited from practicing in this state.
community-based internship - ANSWER under the direct supervision of a doctor of chiropractic medicine who is credentialed as an adjunct faculty member of a chiropractic college in which the student is enrolled
chiropractic college clinical internship - ANSWER the direct supervision of a doctor of chiropractic medicine who is a full-time, part-time, or adjunct faculty member of a chiropractic college located in this state and accredited by the Council on Chiropractic Education and who holds a current, active Florida chiropractor's license
Approved program - ANSWER a program for the education of certified chiropractic physician's assistants, which program has been formally approved by the board
Board - ANSWER the Board of Chiropractic Medicine
Certified chiropractic physician's assistant - ANSWER a person who is a graduate of an approved program or its equivalent and is approved by the department to perform chiropractic services under the indirect supervision of a chiropractic physician or group of physicians certified by the board to supervise such assistant.
True - ANSWER An approved chiropractic physician or group of physicians may indirectly supervise more than one certified chiropractic physician's assistant
Chiropractic physician - ANSWER any person licensed to practice chiropractic medicine pursuant to this chapter.
Department - ANSWER the Department of Health
Direct supervision - ANSWER responsible supervision and control, with the licensed chiropractic physician assuming legal liability for the services rendered by a registered chiropractic assistant or a chiropractic student enrolled in a community-based intern program
Indirect supervision - ANSWER responsible supervision and control, with the licensed chiropractic physician assuming legal liability for the services rendered by a certified chiropractic physician's assistant.
Practice of chiropractic medicine - ANSWER a noncombative principle and practice consisting of the science, philosophy, and art of the adjustment, manipulation, and treatment of the human body in which vertebral subluxations and other malpositioned articulations and structures that are interfering with the normal generation, transmission, and expression of nerve impulse between the brain, organs, and tissue cells of the body, thereby causing disease, are adjusted, manipulated, or treated, thus restoring the normal flow of nerve impulse which produces normal function and consequent health by chiropractic physicians using specific chiropractic adjustment or manipulation techniques taught in chiropractic colleges accredited by the Council on Chiropractic Education
chiropractic physician - ANSWER may examine, analyze, and diagnose the human living body and its diseases by the use of any physical, chemical, electrical, or thermal method; use the X ray for diagnosing; phlebotomize; and use any other general method of examination for diagnosis and analysis taught in any school of chiropractic.
chiropractic physicians - ANSWER may order, store, and administer, for emergency purposes only at the chiropractic physician's office or place of business, prescription medical oxygen and may also order, store, and administer the following topical anesthetics in aerosol form:
a. Any solution consisting of 25 percent ethylchloride and 75 percent dichlorodifluoromethane.
b. Any solution consisting of 15 percent dichlorodifluoromethane and 85 percent trichloromonofluoromethane.
Registered chiropractic assistant - ANSWER a person who is registered by the board to perform chiropractic services under the direct supervision of a chiropractic physician or certified chiropractic physician's assistant
Board of Chiropractic Medicine - ANSWER The Board of Chiropractic Medicine is created within the department and shall consist of seven members to be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate.
Board of Chiropractic Medicine - ANSWER Five members of the board must be licensed chiropractic physicians who are residents of the state and who have been licensed chiropractic physicians engaged in the practice of chiropractic medicine for at least 4 years.
Board of Chiropractic Medicine - ANSWER two members must be residents of the state who are not, and have never been, licensed as chiropractic physicians or members of any closely related profession.
Board of Chiropractic Medicine - ANSWER At least one member of the board must be 60 years of age or older
Board of Chiropractic Medicine - ANSWER As the terms of the members expire, the Governor shall appoint successors for terms of 4 years, and such members shall serve until their successors are appointed
License by Examination - ANSWER There shall be an application fee set by the board not to exceed $100 which shall be nonrefundable, an examination fee not to exceed $500 plus the actual per applicant cost to the department for purchase of portions of the examination from the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners or a similar national organization, which may be refundable if the applicant is found ineligible to take the examination
License by Examination - ANSWER bachelor's degree, parts I, II, III, and IV, and the physiotherapy examination of the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners, a set of fingerprints.
License by Examination - ANSWER An applicant who is notified in writing by the department who has successfully passed the state licensure examination may lawfully practice pending receipt of the certificate of licensure, and the written notification shall act as evidence of licensure entitling the chiropractic physician to practice for a maximum period of 45 days or until the licensing fee is received by the department whichever is sooner.
License by Examination - ANSWER A student in a school or college of chiropractic accredited by the Council on Chiropractic Education or its successor in the final year of the program may file an application, take all examinations required for licensure, submit a set of fingerprints, and pay all fees required for licensure. A chiropractic student who successfully completes the licensure examinations and who otherwise meets all requirements for licensure as a chiropractic physician during the student's final year must have graduated before being certified for licensure pursuant to this section.
Restricted License - ANSWER if a disciplinary action against the licensee is not pending before the department and the licensee is not under discipline by the board, become a full licensee upon expiration of the 2-year restricted license if the licensee pays all applicable fees
Chiropractic medicine faculty certificate - ANSWER The department may issue a chiropractic medicine faculty certificate without examination to an individual who remits a nonrefundable application fee, not to exceed $100 as determined by rule of the board, and who demonstrates that he/she is a graduate of an accredited school or college of chiropractic, holds a valid current license to practice chiropractic medicine in another jurisdiction in the United States, is at least 21 years of age and of good moral character, has not committed any act or offense in any jurisdiction which would constitute the basis for discipline under this chapter or chapter 456, or performs research or has been offered and has accepted a full-time or part-time faculty appointment to teach in a program of chiropractic medicine at a publicly funded state university or college or at a college of chiropractic located in the state and accredited by the Council on Chiropractic Education.
Chiropractic medicine faculty certificate - ANSWER a chiropractic medicine faculty certificate is renewable every 2 years by a holder who applies to the board on a form prescribed by the board and who continues to satisfy the requirements
Renewal of license - ANSWER upon receipt of the renewal application and the fee set by the board not to exceed $500
Renewal of license - ANSWER The applicant must submit a set of fingerprints to the Department of Health on a form and under procedures specified by the department, along with payment in an amount equal to the costs incurred by the department for a national criminal background check of the applicant for the initial renewal of his or her license after January 1, 2000
Renewal of license - ANSWER If an applicant has submitted fingerprints to the department for a national criminal history check upon initial licensure and is renewing his or her license for the first time, then the applicant need only submit the information and fee required for a statewide criminal history check.
Renewal of license - ANSWER The department shall adopt rules establishing a procedure for the biennial renewal of licenses
Continuing Chiropratic Education - ANSWER The board shall require licensees to periodically demonstrate their professional competence as a condition of renewal of a license by completing up to 40 contact classroom hours of continuing education.
Itemized patient billing - ANSWER chiropractic physician shall submit to the patient, to the patient's insurer, or to the administrative agency for any federal or state health program under which the patient is entitled to benefits an itemized statement of the specific services rendered and the charge for each, no later than the chiropractic physician's next regular billing cycle which follows the fifth day after the rendering of professional services
Itemized patient billing - ANSWER A chiropractic physician may not condition the furnishing of an itemized statement upon prior payment of the bill
felony of the third degree - ANSWER Practicing or attempting to practice chiropractic medicine without an active license or with a license fraudulently obtained
felony of the third degree - ANSWER Using or attempting to use a license to practice chiropractic medicine which has been suspended or revoked
misdemeanor of the first degree - ANSWER Selling or fraudulently obtaining or furnishing any chiropractic diploma, license, or record of registration or aiding or abetting in the same
misdemeanor of the first degree - ANSWER Making any willfully false oath or affirmation whenever an oath or affirmation is required
misdemeanor of the first degree - ANSWER Using the name or title "chiropractic physician," "doctor of chiropractic," "chiropractic medicine," or any other name or title which would lead the public to believe that such person is engaging in the practice of chiropractic medicine, unless such person is licensed as a chiropractic physician in this state.
misdemeanor of the first degree - ANSWER Knowingly concealing any information relative to violations
Sexual misconduct in the practice of chiropractic medicine - ANSWER violation of the chiropractic physician-patient relationship through which the chiropractic physician uses said relationship to induce or attempt to induce the patient to engage, or to engage or attempt to engage the patient, in sexual activity outside the scope of practice or the scope of generally accepted examination or treatment of the patient
Grounds for disciplinary action - ANSWER Attempting to obtain, obtaining, or renewing a license to practice chiropractic medicine by bribery, by fraudulent misrepresentations, or through an error of the department or the board
Grounds for disciplinary action - ANSWER Having a license to practice chiropractic medicine revoked, suspended, or otherwise acted against, including the denial of licensure, by the licensing authority of another state, territory, or country.
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