Board of Medicine Announces New Service
To Check on Supervising Physician Listing for PAs
Updated September 20, 2006
by Pat Mixon, Mixon and Associates
FAPA Legislative Consultants

We received the following information from the Board of Medicine today. PAs can now see online a list of physicians who are currently on file with the Board of Medicine as supervising physicians. This information is available to licensees and consumers.

Here is a link to that site.

Florida Department of Health re Physician Assitants

Here is a link to a form that the state will be sending out next month to all PAs to help you navigate to the info on the state website.

New Enhancement for PAs from the Board of Medicine

Click on Consumer Information, then click on Licensee Lookup Search Screen. Navigate your way through to look up your Physician Assistant license online information file. You will notice a new tab has been added called "Supervising practitioners". Click on that tab and it lists all your supervising physicians currently on file.

Having this information available online will go a long way in reducing the number of PA's that violate the provision of updating the SDF!

This information came to us from:

Crystal A. List, CPM
Program Operations Administrator
Florida Board of Medicine

We advise all of you to check the listing as soon as possible and submit updated Supervision Data Forms (SDF) as needed. This new service from the Board of Medicine was a direct result of FAPA's discussion with the Board of Medicine administrative staff after the problem with the issue of updating Supervision Data Forms earlier this year.

If you find a physician on your supervising practitioner list on the state website that you have deleted previously, but is still listed, you need to get this corrected. You should have received a copy of the SDF form back from the state acknowledging its receipt and filing by the state in your file. Make a copy of that copy and send it with a cover letter to the Board of Medicine asking them to correct the error. This is the procedure we are recommending. If you can document that you deleted the physician(s) and the state sent you the copy of the SDF back to acknowledge that change, it would be unfair to attempt to discipline someone in that case for their error. We have made an inquiry to the Board to confirm this procedure and they have concurred that this is the correct procedure to follow to update your supervising physician listing.

Information provided by Mixon and Associates, FAPA Legislative Consultants. Kudos to Juhan, Pat and Corinne Mixon, and Ron Meyer for their efforts on our behalf.