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2025 Florida Law Update Regarding AHCA Level 2 Background Screening Requirement for Health Care Providers

Posted on Health Care Law News, Professional Licensure Investigations July 7, 2025 by Sydney Madow

Effective July 1, 2025, all licensed health care providers in Florida must comply with a new background screening requirement. Florida HB 975 implemented the “Cleared to Care” initiative, which requires almost all health care providers to undergo an AHCA Level 2 background screening upon application for licensure or during the 90-day licensure renewal period. Unless Read more →

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Florida Joins Interstate Medical Licensure Compact

Posted on Health Care Law News, Professional Licensure Investigations December 12, 2024 by Sydney Madow

Recently, the Florida legislature passed Senate Bill 7016, making Florida the 40th state to join the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact (IMLC), an agreement among multiple jurisdictions that allows member states to expedite the licensure process for physicians who want to practice in multiple states. As of December 2024, the State of Florida is still in Read more →

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2024 U.S. Senate Bill Aims to Amend HIPAA to Establish Cybersecurity Standards

Posted on Health Care Law News October 25, 2024 by Sydney Madow

Last month, the U.S. Senate introduced the Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act to address multiple recent data breaches and ransomware attacks affecting multiple health care entities, insurers, and health care technology providers. If passed, the bill will amend the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and establish new “mandatory minimum cybersecurity standards for Read more →

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Nicholson & Eastin, LLP Successfully Defends Florida RN/Foreign Doctor’s Nursing License

Posted on Firm News, Health Care Law News, Professional Licensure Investigations August 23, 2024 by Sydney Madow

In connection with a Board of Nursing investigation, the Firm successfully defended a foreign doctor licensed as a Florida RN accused of practicing outside the scope of his nursing license. The Board of Nursing’s complaint alleged that the client was misrepresenting himself as a doctor and functioning as a medical doctor at a clinic and Read more →

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New DOJ Program Offers Significant Monetary Rewards to Health Care Fraud Whistleblowers

Posted on Fraud Investigation, Health Care Law News August 8, 2024 by Sydney Madow

On August 1, 2024, The Department of Justice (DOJ) Criminal Division began a three-year Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program in its efforts to prosecute corporate crimes. The pilot program offers large financial payouts to whistleblowers who turn over original and truthful information related to financial crime, bribery, foreign corruption involving corporate misconduct, and health care Read more →

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