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New Florida Law Requires Physician Medical Directors for Health Care Clinics Employing Chiropractors

By Robert David, Esq.

Effective July 1, 2008, pursuant to Florida Statutes § 460.4167, no chiropractor may be employed by a health care clinic unless the clinic has a medical director that is an MD or DO. Specifically, the provision is intended to prevent D.C.s from acting as medical directors for such clinics. The Board of Chiropractic recently addressed the issue of whether any such clinics already existing can be grandfathered. The answer by the Board is no. Therefore, effective July 1, 2008 any clinic that has a D.C. as a medical director or employs a D.C. and does not have an MD or DO medical director will not be able to submit claims or bill for services and D.C.s working for such establishments can be disciplined. The Statute also addresses several issues for clinics that continue to employ D...continue to full post

Full post as published by Health Care Fraud Blog on May 14, 2008 (boomark / email).