Florida Laws, Rules, and Legislative Update: Protecting Your Practices

Speakers in this session

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  Kim Driggers

  

  Kim Driggers JD

  Kimberly A. Driggers is the owner of Driggers Law, PA, where she represents the Florida Chiropractic Association as its General Counsel and serves as one of their Lobbyists.  For the prior twenty-plus years, Ms. Driggers was in private practice in Orlando and Tallahassee, Florida, initially representing the interests of insurance companies in their defense of injury and insurance claims.  After a number of years and for the majority of her practice, she put her insurance knowledge to use in representing medical providers, injured patients, and homeowners in the denial of insurance benefits, litigating insurance claims in courts throughout Florida.

  Ms. Driggers is well known in the area of Personal Injury Protection insurance law (No-Fault or PIP insurance) and has authored numerous articles, testifies regularly in the Florida Legislature, and lectures for the Florida Chiropractic Association throughout the State of Florida.  She is a longstanding member of the National Association of Chiropractic Attorneys.

  In August 2019, Ms. Driggers became the first Non-Chiropractor and seventh woman since 1963, to be elected to the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners, the international testing agency for the chiropractic profession that develops, administers and scores standardized exams for the chiropractic profession.

  She received her B.A. in Psychology Magna Cum Laude from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida in 1990.  Ms. Driggers attended the Florida State University College of Law, receiving her J.D. in 1994.

  Sessions...

  Business, Rules and Laws: Let Us Protect You

  Regional Event: ne

  Start Date: 03/25/2023 1:00 pm

  End Date: 03/25/2023 2:40 pm

  Location: St. Augustine AB

  Session details

  This class is for Florida Doctors ONLY

  Course Description

  Course discussing various and frequent laws and rules impacting the chiropractic profession in Florida. Attendees will learn about the Florida chiropractic scope of practice, the basics of employment laws impacting the running of a practice, HIPAA laws used on a daily basis, the new Direct Primary Care law in Florida and how it can expand an office practice, and expanding a small office to a multidisciplinary office and the important Florida and Federal laws to be aware of that will keep you out of trouble.

  Florida Laws, Rules, and Legislative Update: Protecting Your Practices

  Regional Event: nw

  Start Date: 02/11/2023 10:20 am

  End Date: 02/11/2023 12:00 pm

  Location: St. Andrew's EF

  Session details

  All NEW content based upon the changing Florida laws and insurance climate in Florida.  Attendees will learn:

  • 2023 Legislative Update – PIP and MBI; Bill to impact Diplomates
  • Increase in fraud complaints by auto insurers? What it’s about
  • Florida fraud statutes and pitfalls to avoid
    • Marketing companies
    • “Pre-determined care”
    • Medical Necessity claims and better documentation
    • Violations of the Patient Self-Referral Act
    • EMC Pitfalls
    • Co-Pays and Deductibles
  • Board of Chiropractic Medicine update – new proposed Rules moving forward
  • Direct Healthcare Agreements – Legally establishing a monthly cash flow to provide patient care
  • Massage Establishment Licenses – Need for a Designated Establishment Manager
  • New Federal legislation applies to most all healthcare providers – The No Surprises Act, a brief primer; FCA’s FREE NSA Compliance Manual
  • New FREE HIPAA Privacy & Security Manual with FORMS and Resources

  Speaker would like to share: Florida Laws and Regulations Handout.