Legislators in Tallahassee will take up a bill that would impose strict limits on the number of offices that Florida physicians can operate. The proposed legislation, which moved forward through committee yesterday, would cap the number of satellite offices that primary care physicians can operate at four for general practitioners and two for specialists. The law was prompted by reports that some doctors were opening offices and leaving them largely in the hands of nurse practitioners and employees with little medical training.
- see this article from the South Florida Business Journal