The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)
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. . . . § 817.505 ("Patient Brokering Act"), and Florida's Anti-Kickback Statute, Fla Stat. § 456.054 ("Anti-Kickback . . . Stat. § 817.505(1)(b) ("It is unlawful for any person, including any health care provider or health care . . .
. . . . § 817.505 (2012) The Patient Brokering Statute prohibits offering or paying any "commission, bonus, . . . Stat. § 817.505(1)(a). . . . Id. § 817.505(1)(b). . . . [ section 456.054 ] shall be considered patient brokering and shall be punishable as provided in s. 817.505 . . . Stat. § 817.505 (1)(b). . . .
. . . . § 817.505(7) (“The provisions of this section are in addition to any other civil, administrative, or . . . such services are “the product of an arrangement prohibited by Florida Statutes §§ 395.0185, 456.054, 817.505 . . . because they are the product of an arrangement prohibited by Florida Statutes §§ 395.0185, 456.054, 817.505 . . . Specifically, Plaintiff asserts that Defendants’ conduct violates Florida Statutes §§ 817.505 (Patient . . .
. . . . § 482.43); Florida’s Patient Brokering Act (§ 817.505, Fla.Stat.(2009)); and the Federal Civil Monetary . . .
. . . . § 817.505), the Patient Self-Referral Act (Fla.Stat. § 456.053), the Anti-Kickback Statute (Fla.Stat . . . Stat. §§ 817.505, 456.053, 456.054, and 460.413(d), (f), and (Z)); Fla. Admin. . . .
. . . . § 817.505 and Anti-Kickback Statute, Fla. . . .
. . . guilt, pleads guilty or nolo contendere to insurance fraud under s. 817.234, patient brokering under s. 817.505 . . . guilt, pleads guilty or nolo contendere to insurance fraud under s. 817.234, patient brokering under s. 817.505 . . .
. . . Prosper appealed to the circuit court, adding a challenge to the constitutionality of section 817.505 . . . Prosper asserts that Harden held section 817.505(l)(b) unconstitutional by implication. . . . 817.505 contained a “safe harbor” provision that provided it did not apply to payment practices not . . . See § 817.505(3)(a), Fla. Stat. (2002). . . . The prohibitions against fee splitting and patient brokering of section 817.505(l)(b) were correctly . . .
. . . 409.920(2)(a), Florida Statutes (2002); (56-129) split-fee patient brokering, in violation of section 817.505 . . . Fifth District found that the trial court erred in concluding that the patient brokering statute, § 817.505 . . . Counts 56-129 charged the defendants with split-fee patient brokering, in violation of section 817.505 . . . The trial court dismissed the charges as multiplicitous because the court found that section 817.505( . . . Thus, in order to determine the intended unit of prosecution for section 817.505, we must look at the . . .
. . . Section 817.505 provides in part as follows: 817.505. . . . In contrast, section 817.505 has a safe harbor. . . . In section 817.505, the Legislature has prohibited “any split fee arrangement.” . . . We also decline to read any fraud element into section 817.505. . . . Nevertheless, sections 817.505(l)(a) and 817.505(l)(b) are similar and both prohibit engaging in any . . .
. . . practice resulted in an illegal fee split or brokering arrangement in violation of sections 456.054 and 817.505 . . . Further, F.S. § 817.505 does not make it unlawful for Axcess MRI to pay an independent contractor to . . . Violations of this section shall be considered patient brokering and shall be punishable as provided in s. 817.505 . . . Section 817.505 prohibits patient brokering and states: (1) It is unlawful for any person, including . . .
. . . . § 817.505, Fla. . . .
. . . thus, constituted an indirect method of fees for patient referral in violation of sections 458.331 and 817.505 . . . Florida Statutes §§ 458.331(l)(i) and 817.505(l)(a) prohibit any split fee arrangement. . . . Section 817.505(l)(a), provides it is unlawful for any person, including a health care provider, to: . . . Furthermore, those cases pre-dated that enactment of the Patient Brokering Act at section 817.505. . . .
. . . Further, the Order notes that section 817.505(l)(a) makes it unlawful for any person, including a health . . .
. . . arrangement is nothing more than a fee-splitting scheme to compensate for MRI referrals prohibited by section 817.505 . . .
. . . Plaintiff contends that it is a crime for a physician to pay for the referral of patients, § 817.505, . . .
. . . Violations of this section shall be considered patient brokering and shall be punishable as provided in s. 817.505 . . .
. . . void because the third component of the fee structure violates Florida Statute §§ 458.331(l)(i) and 817.505 . . .