Florida Finalizes Pain Clinic Law

Florida has finalized legislation related to pain clinics, medical offices that treat patients in need of pain medication and medical offices that advertise pain treatments, according to a South Florida Sun-Sentinel news report.

Some of the key points in Florida's pain clinic law include:

• Pain clinics must be owned by a physician or licensed by the state. Operating an illegal clinic is a third-degree felony.
• The state will inspect all pain clinics starting this month.
• Clinics cannot sell more than three days of pain medication to a patient paying with cash or credit. If a patient needs the remainder of a longer spanning prescription, he or she can fill it at a pharmacy.
• Physicians must examine patients the same day a prescription is written for pain medication.
• Only board-certified or specially trained pain management physicians can practice in pain clinics after July 1, 2012.

Read the South Florida Sun-Sentinel news report about Florida's pain clinic law.

Read other coverage about Florida pain clinics:

- Final Rule Proposed for Prescribing Controlled Substances in Florida Pain Clinics

- Florida Board of Medicine Comes Down Hard on Pain Physicians Guilty of Fraud

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