US Politics - FL licensure question
David Hendricks
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Title:
US Politics - FL licensure question
Creator:
David Hendricks
Date:
10/3/2003
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Hello O&P Colleagues:
I'm a CPO who is not currently practicing clinically. I'm involved in O&P product development and marketing. I am licensed in both P&O in Florida. Therefore, I am licensed but not actively practicing, and have been so for several years.
I have received a letter from the Florida O&P Licensure Board that in order for my license to remain alive I must pay (about $1,400 - I don't have the exact amount in front of me right now). The letter goes on to say that I can choose to remain licensed but with an inactive status. As I read the letter I mentally jumped at that option - until I saw that the fee to remain inactive is identical (about $1,400)!
It seems outrageous to have to pay that kind of money to be inactive. Here are my questions:
1) What is the penalty if I just let the license be terminated? Is there prejudice against me later, or can I just reapply for a license if I decide to practice again - which I plan to do at some point. (I was not grandfathered, but obtained my license through the current requirements, all of which I still meet.)
2) Is there a third option that they failed to mention in that letter which will allow me to keep my status as somehow quickly licensable without paying that ridiculously high fee?
3) Is there some sort of plain English guide to this law I can obtain that is easy and quick to read? Kind of like a FAQ section?
I need to form some kind of response by the end of this month, so I will appreciate any help from this listserv. I'm sure there are others in a similar predicament. I don't want to invest the time to read the complex legal code nor the money to hire a lawyer to do it for me.
Thanks, in advance, for your help.
David
David Hendricks, CPO, FAAOP
President
StatFab (a division of HOPE Inc)
1307 E Landstreet Road
Orlando, FL 32824
ph: 800.613.8852 407.850.0411
fax: 888.440.1217 407.851.8922
www.StatFab.com
I'm a CPO who is not currently practicing clinically. I'm involved in O&P product development and marketing. I am licensed in both P&O in Florida. Therefore, I am licensed but not actively practicing, and have been so for several years.
I have received a letter from the Florida O&P Licensure Board that in order for my license to remain alive I must pay (about $1,400 - I don't have the exact amount in front of me right now). The letter goes on to say that I can choose to remain licensed but with an inactive status. As I read the letter I mentally jumped at that option - until I saw that the fee to remain inactive is identical (about $1,400)!
It seems outrageous to have to pay that kind of money to be inactive. Here are my questions:
1) What is the penalty if I just let the license be terminated? Is there prejudice against me later, or can I just reapply for a license if I decide to practice again - which I plan to do at some point. (I was not grandfathered, but obtained my license through the current requirements, all of which I still meet.)
2) Is there a third option that they failed to mention in that letter which will allow me to keep my status as somehow quickly licensable without paying that ridiculously high fee?
3) Is there some sort of plain English guide to this law I can obtain that is easy and quick to read? Kind of like a FAQ section?
I need to form some kind of response by the end of this month, so I will appreciate any help from this listserv. I'm sure there are others in a similar predicament. I don't want to invest the time to read the complex legal code nor the money to hire a lawyer to do it for me.
Thanks, in advance, for your help.
David
David Hendricks, CPO, FAAOP
President
StatFab (a division of HOPE Inc)
1307 E Landstreet Road
Orlando, FL 32824
ph: 800.613.8852 407.850.0411
fax: 888.440.1217 407.851.8922
www.StatFab.com
Citation
David Hendricks, “US Politics - FL licensure question,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 25, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/221987.
