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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXXII
REGULATION OF PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS
Chapter 458
MEDICAL PRACTICE
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F.S. 458.327
458.327 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 medicine or an attempt to practice medicine without a license to practice in Florida.
(b) The use or attempted use of a license which is suspended or revoked to practice medicine.
(c) Attempting to obtain or obtaining a license to practice medicine by knowing misrepresentation.
(d) Attempting to obtain or obtaining a position as a medical practitioner or medical resident in a clinic or hospital through knowing misrepresentation of education, training, or experience.
(e) Knowingly operating, owning, or managing a nonregistered pain-management clinic that is required to be registered with the Department of Health pursuant to s. 458.3265(1).
(f) Dispensing a controlled substance listed in Schedule II or Schedule III in violation of s. 465.0276.
(2) Each of the following acts constitutes a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083:
(a) Knowingly concealing information relating to violations of this chapter.
(b) Making any willfully false oath or affirmation whenever an oath or affirmation is required by this chapter.
(c) Referring any patient, for health care goods or services, to a partnership, firm, corporation, or other business entity in which the physician or the physician’s employer has an equity interest of 10 percent or more unless, prior to such referral, the physician notifies the patient of his or her financial interest and of the patient’s right to obtain such goods or services at the location of the patient’s choice. This section does not apply to the following types of equity interest:
1. The ownership of registered securities issued by a publicly held corporation or the ownership of securities issued by a publicly held corporation, the shares of which are traded on a national exchange or the over-the-counter market;
2. A physician’s own practice, whether he or she is a sole practitioner or part of a group, when the health care good or service is prescribed or provided solely for the physician’s own patients and is provided or performed by the physician or under the physician’s supervision; or
3. An interest in real property resulting in a landlord-tenant relationship between the physician and the entity in which the equity interest is held, unless the rent is determined, in whole or in part, by the business volume or profitability of the tenant or is otherwise unrelated to fair market value.
(d) Leading the public to believe that one is licensed as a medical doctor, or is engaged in the licensed practice of medicine, without holding a valid, active license.
(e) Practicing medicine or attempting to practice medicine with an inactive or delinquent license.
(f) Knowingly prescribing or dispensing, or causing to be prescribed or dispensed, controlled substances in a nonregistered pain-management clinic that is required to be registered with the Department of Health pursuant to s. 458.3265(1).
History.ss. 1, 8, ch. 79-302; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; s. 32, ch. 85-175; ss. 17, 25, 26, ch. 86-245; s. 23, ch. 88-1; s. 86, ch. 91-224; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 81, ch. 92-149; s. 165, ch. 94-119; s. 209, ch. 97-103; s. 48, ch. 2000-318; s. 5, ch. 2010-211; s. 5, ch. 2011-141.

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Amendments to 458.327


Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 458.327
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

S458.327 1a - HEALTH-SAFETY - PRACTICE MEDICINE WITHOUT ACTIVE LICENSE - F: T
S458.327 1b - HEALTH-SAFETY - USE SUSPENDED OR REVOKED MEDICAL LICENSE - F: T
S458.327 1c - HEALTH-SAFETY - OBTAIN MEDICAL LIC BY MISREPRESENTATION - F: T
S458.327 1d - HEALTH-SAFETY - OBTAIN MEDICAL POSITION BY MISREPRESENTATION - F: T
S458.327 1e - HEALTH-SAFETY - OWN OPERATE NONREGISTERED PAIN CLINIC - F: T
S458.327 1f - DRUGS-HEALTH OR SAFETY - DISPENSE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE II OR III - F: T
S458.327 2a - HEALTH-SAFETY - CONCEAL VIOLATION OF MEDICAL LICENSE LAW - M: F
S458.327 2b - HEALTH-SAFETY - MAKE FALSE OATH RE MEDICAL LICENSE LAW - M: F
S458.327 2c - HEALTH-SAFETY - REFER PATIENT WO REQUIRED NOTICE - M: F
S458.327 2d - HEALTH-SAFETY - MISLEAD PUBLIC ABOUT MEDICAL LICENSE - M: F
S458.327 2e - HEALTH-SAFETY - PRACTICE MEDICINE W INACTIVE DELINQ LIC - M: F
S458.327 2f - HEALTH-SAFETY - PRESCRIBE DISPENSE CONTROL SUB NONREGIS CLINIC - M: F



Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

STATE v. CRUMBLEY, v. Jo, 247 So. 3d 666 (Fla. App. Ct. 2018)

. . . Section 458.327(1)(e) criminalizes the knowing operation, ownership, or management of a nonregistered . . .

IN RE HERNANDEZ- ABREU, v., 506 B.R. 307 (Bankr. S.D. Fla. 2014)

. . . . § 458.327. . . . Stat. § 458.327(2)(a). . . .

M. HALL, v. R. MAAL,, 32 So. 3d 682 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2010)

. . . See, e.g., §§ 322.03, 454.23, 458.327, Fla. Stat. . . .

In DONALD HANFT, M. D. P. A. M. D. P. A. M. D. v., 315 B.R. 617 (S.D. Fla. 2002)

. . . . § 458.327(l)(a). . . .

In HANFT, M. D. P. A. v. M. D. P. A. M. D., 274 B.R. 917 (Bankr. S.D. Fla. 2002)

. . . . § 458.327(l)(a). Violations of that statute constitute third degree felonies. . . .

MAZUREK, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF MONTANA v. ARMSTRONG, 520 U.S. 968 (U.S. 1997)

. . . . §§ 458.303(l)(a), 458.327(1), 458.347 (1991 and Supp. 1997); post, at 980-981, n. 7 (citing statutes . . . Ann. §458.327(1) (Supp. 1997), but there is no reason to think it would not violate the more specific . . .

FLORIDA OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION P. O. D. v. DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, BOARD OF OPTICIANRY,, 567 So. 2d 928 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1990)

. . . Section 458.327 (Florida Statutes). . . .

BOARD OF MEDICINE, v. MATA,, 561 So. 2d 364 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1990)

. . . investigative report to the Board stating that it had probable cause to believe that Mata had violated section 458.327 . . .

CASTELLI v. DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, BOARD OF MEDICINE GRANADO- VILLAR v. DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, BOARD OF MEDICINE, 33 Fla. Supp. 2d 191 (Fla. Div. Admin. Hearings 1989)

. . . The Board’s Order preliminarily denying her application for licensure cites to sections 458.327(l)(c) . . . Section 458.327(l)(c) provides that certain conduct constitutes a felony of the third degree, namely, . . .

BAKER, v. STATE, 501 So. 2d 17 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1986)

. . . . § 458.327(1)(a), Fla.Stat. (1985). . . . .

FLORIDA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, INC. W. Jr. J. v. DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, A. O. D. D. O. D., 426 So. 2d 1112 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1983)

. . . Section 458.327 (Florida Statutes). . . .