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CS for CS for SB 818 First Engrossed
Florida Statutes, to read:
458.3192 Analysis of survey results; report.—
Page 20 of 79
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(3) By November 1 each year, the Department of Health shall
provide nonidentifying information to the prescription drug
monitoring program’s Implementation and Oversight Task Force
regarding the number of physicians who are registered with the
prescription drug monitoring program and who also use the
database from the prescription drug monitoring program for their
patients in their medical practice.
Section 7. Paragraphs (a), (f), (g), (h), and (k) of
subsection (1) and paragraphs (a) and (c) of subsection (2) of
section 458.3265, Florida Statutes, are amended, and paragraphs
(f) and (g) are added to subsection (5) of that section, to
read:
458.3265 Pain-management clinics.—
(1) REGISTRATION.—
(a) “Pain-management clinic,” hereinafter referred to as
“clinic,” means a publicly or privately owned facility where in
any month a majority of patients are prescribed opioids,
benzodiazepines, barbiturates, or carisoprodol, for the
treatment of chronic nonmalignant pain. “Chronic nonmalignant
pain” means pain unrelated to cancer or rheumatoid arthritis
which persists beyond the usual course of disease or the injury
that is the cause of the pain or more than 90 days after
surgery. All privately owned pain-management clinics,
facilities, or offices, hereinafter referred to as “clinics,”
which advertise in any medium for any type of pain-management
services, or employ a physician who is primarily engaged in the
treatment of pain by prescribing or dispensing controlled
CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.