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Florida Gets Tough on DME Licensure, Operating Home Health Agencies & Clinics

By Robert David, Esq.

Florida is among the few states that permit what is referred to as the ?corporate practice of medicine.? In many other states, medical and other health care entities are required to be owned by medical professionals individually or through professional associations that include only medical professionals. Florida still requires practitioner only practices for dentists and last year enacted restrictions on Chiropractic practices. In many states that have these laws, non-practitioners have to go through legal machinations to have an investment interest in a medical practice without actually owning the practice. In many instances in Florida and elsewhere, physicians act as ?straw owners? of their own medical practices and are in fact employees or partners with other individuals who control the practice...continue to full post

Full post as published by Health Care Fraud Blog on July 21, 2009 (boomark / email).