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News & Meetings

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2013 Florida Chapter Meeting

October 4-6, 2013
Sirata Beach Resort & Conference Center
5300 Gulf Boulevard, St Pete Beach, FL 33706

For more information, contact Dawn Moerings, FL Chapter Executive Director, at FloridaChapterACP@comcast.net.


Handouts and meeting information from 2012 Florida Chapter Meeting

Download the complete Meeting Syllabus for the 2012 Florida Chapter Meeting

View/print copies of presentations for most of the 2012 meeting sessions

Florida Chapter Wins Permanent Injunction Against Physician Gag Law

After over a year of litigation, the Florida Chapter and its allies won a permanent injunction prohibiting the State of Florida from enforcing the 2011 law that forbade physicians from discussing a patient’s gun ownership. In finding the law unconstitutional, the U.S. District Court relied heavily on the Chapter’s argument that any such law was an unconstitutional abridgement of a physician’s First Amendment right to free speech.

Read the full announcement (July 19, 2012)[PDF]
2011 Chapter Meeting Handouts

View/print copies of presentations for most sessions

Meeting Syllabus Archive

Additional CME Opportunities
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Changing to 5010 version of HIPAA Transactions scheduled for 1/1/12

Florida Medicaid’s fiscal agent - the Agency for Health Care Administration Alert - All trading partners will be deactivated for HIPAA standard 4010 X12 transactions effective January 1, 2012.

Changing to the 5010 version of the HIPAA transactions is vital for Florida Medicaid providers to be able to appropriately bill the Medicaid program for services rendered to eligible recipients. Failure to prepare for this deadline will result in delayed Medicaid payments. This change applies to any provider and vendor submitting or receiving electronic files from the Florida Medicaid program and its fiscal agent. View the following document for additional information: 5010 Transition[PDF]

If you have further questions regarding the 5010 transition for Florida Medicaid, enrolled members can contact HP at 1-866-586-0961

Important Update from Chair of the Florida Board of Medicine

It is extremely important to keep your profile updated with the Florida Dept of Health. Physicians can be disciplined for not maintaining an updated profile. In addition to the basic information required by law, Awards, professional achievements, contributions, memberships, special qualifications etc. can also be voluntarily added to the profile. Also, by adding your e-mail to the listserve “mailman” will ensure you keep abreast of all the important changes in Laws and Rules as they happen. If you are not receiving the email updates from the Board of Medicine, we encourage you to check your profile and add your e-mail address to the listserve to receive the updates in time. Your e-mail address will NOT be shared from the listserve. The link and directions are below.

One of the Board of Medicine’s missions is to disseminate appropriate information to consumers and practitioners. In an effort to reach out to more applicants, licensees and the public to provide information, the Board has established a “Mailman” system. Each time the Board of Medicine posts new items in Mailman, subscribers receive an email including that information. Examples of the types of updates provided by the Mailman system includes changes in the law and board rules, reminders about legal requirements and updates that impact physicians and patients in Florida. Subscribers’ email addresses are not publicly displayed and are not posted onto the Board’s website or onto public practitioner profiles. You are encouraged to subscribe and instructions for how to sign up are below:

Instructions for Joining the Board of Medicine’s Mailman System
Step 1: Go to http://www.doh.state.fl.us/mqa/medical/index.html
Step 2: Select Interested Parties (Mailman) from the upper left side of the screen in the blue box
Step 3: Enter your email address where indicated
Step 4: Click on Subscribe

You will receive a confirmation of subscription. When the Board of Medicine posts information, you will receive an email with the posted information.

To Update Profile – left side – white box – “Practitioner Profile”

Florida E-News

December 2012
August 2012
August 2011
March 2011

Newsletter Archive of the Florida Chapter ACP

"News & Notes" from Florida's Internal Medicine Residency Programs

3-18-13: First Issue

Important Health & Public Policy Updates

5-10-13: 2013 Legislative Tallahassee Wrap-up
4-26-13: Legislative Session Report Week Eight
4-19-13: Legislative Session Report Week Seven
4-12-13: Legislative Session Report Week Six
4-5-13: Legislative Session Report Week Five
3-29-13: Legislative Session Report Week Four
3-22-13: Legislative Session Report Week Three
3-5-13: Help Prevent Deceptive Use of the term "Doctor" Req Action for Senate Health Committee March 7, 2013
2-22-13: February 22, 2013 Final Pre-Session Legislative Update
2-15-13: February 15, 2013 Legislative Report from the Capitol
2-8-13: February 8, 2013 Tallahassee Legislative Report
1-30-13: 2013 Pre-Session Tallahassee Report
1-4-13: Legislative Update

Young Physicians' Newsletter

January 2012

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