Florida Doctor Magazine

Making life better for Florida's Doctors, in order to make life better for Floridians. Better Care, Better Practice, Better Life!

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Florida sued the 3 insulin makers, the 3 big PBMs and their rebate aggregators on Sept. 22. A $280 Humalog vial, $210 back in rebates. What a Florida physician should do now:

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Page three of the contract is the salary. Page fourteen decides where your family lives two years after the job ends. Most Florida physicians read them in the wrong order.

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#FloridaMedicine #PhysicianContracts

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UHC drops prior auth on 1,700 codes Oct. 1. About 120 reach Medicare Advantage. Lee Health is leaving anyway. The Florida fine print:

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A Florida nurse lost her license by emergency order over a TikTok. The judge who heard the case recommended a $250 fine. That gap reaches every physician.

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Florida has 111 locally acquired dengue cases in 2026. The right test depends on the day of illness, and the danger starts when the fever ends.

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#FLDocs #Dengue

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Florida's largest Medicare Advantage upcoding case settled for $541.5M. The codes were added after the visit. The physician's name stayed on the chart. What to check in your records: https://t.co/NglTuB3YZ8

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Florida's Legislature said no to ending school vaccine mandates. The Department of Health is doing it by rule instead, and physicians have until Monday to comment.

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#FloridaMedicine #Vaccines

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A marketing firm offers to fill your schedule for 20% of revenue. In Florida, that contract can be a felony.

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The FDA just authorized a robot that draws blood better than most humans do.

94.5% first-stick success across 1,633 patients, and one supervisor can run three machines.

That is the iron triangle bending.

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#FloridaMedicine #FDA

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There's a new C-suite officer deciding how you'll practice, and you've probably never met them.

The Chief AI Officer is writing clinical policy through procurement. Here's how Florida physicians keep a seat at the table.

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#FloridaMedicine #HealthcareAI

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Florida just made Parkinson's reporting mandatory for every MD, DO, and APRN.

Starts Jan 2027. Passed 107-0 in the House, 32-0 in the Senate.

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#FloridaMedicine #Parkinsons #FLDocs

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Florida just fixed a regulatory gap costing physicians six figures in buildout costs.

HB 1175 creates a middle tier for office surgery suites. Your voice shapes what those standards look like.

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#FloridaMedicine #HB1175

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One radiologist + AI caught 20% more cancers than two radiologists alone, at 44% less workload.

AI won't replace physicians. It reprices them.

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Replaying the case at 3 a.m. isn't a failure of resilience. It's a system problem.

The free kill bill, the documentation burden, the AI rollout — loaded onto individual doctors and called personal weakness.

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UNH social engagement up 950% in a week. Nursing home scandal. DOJ fraud probe. Delayed murder trial. MA reimbursement gap widening.

Florida physicians have been saying this for a decade. The public finally caught up.

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#FloridaMedicine #UnitedHealth

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Florida physicians are hit hardest by the regulatory burden crisis. 60%+ of our Medicare beneficiaries are in MA. 3 of the top 5 admin burdens are MA-driven.

The new MGMA 2026 data: https://t.co/OpTKFXvdsk

#FloridaMedicine #PriorAuth

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Your AI scribe might be committing a felony in Florida.

New class action: Abridge AI recorded patients without consent.

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Your AI scribe might be committing a felony in Florida.

Sutter Health and MemorialCare just got hit with a class action over Abridge AI recording patients without consent.

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Florida physician news, April 7:

→ HB 6003 still has no Senate companion
→ FRAME loan repayment closes April 30
→ Maternal health summit in Clearwater
→ HHS nutrition push at Nicklaus Children's
→ Tampa General's affordability framework

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Physician burnout fell from 62.8% to 45.2% in two years — the biggest improvement on record.

The 27% gender gap didn't move.

What changed, what didn't, and what Florida physician leaders should actually do about it: https://t.co/RhXuM7w7Cd