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Category: AHCA
- Understanding the Value of Legal Expertise When Navigating the Florida Department of Health
- Hanging a Shingle? Things to Keep in Mind When Starting a Solo Practice & AHCA License Exemptions
- Common Problems with Licensure Applications: Resumes and Curriculum Vitae
- Why You Need an Attorney to Safeguard Your Professional License
- Mandatory Online License Renewals for Health Care Providers
- New Florida Law Affects Healthcare Professionals Who Have a Criminal Past
- How to Respond to a Florida Department of Health Investigation?
- Protecting Your Healthcare License in Florida: Navigating Your Administrative Complaint in 5 Steps
- Why a Local Presence Matters in Defending Your License
- Should You Go Before a Professional Licensing Board Alone?
- Why Hire Our Law Firm to Litigate Against AHCA and DOH?
- Commonly Cited Deficiencies Against Assisted Living Facilities
- Congratulations to Attorney Rickey Strong: ALF Administrator Certification!
- Medicaid Audits in Florida
- Background Screening Concerns: Exemption Applications with AHCA and DOH
- We Help Physicians Determine Eligibility for a Florida Medical License
- Facilities’ Medicaid Reimbursement: Hope After an AHCA Audit
- How to Survive and Stay in Business After Receiving a Complaint or Notice from AHCA
- How to Survive and Stay in Business After Receiving a Complaint or Notice from AHCA
- Avoiding Mistakes with AHCA Change of Ownership Application
- Criminal Case: Pending Arrest as a Health Care Facility Owner
- Changing Your Practice Owner? Change of Ownership Filings Required
- Obtaining an Initial AHCA Facility License? What You Need to Know.
- Jeff Howell Presents Virtual Seminar on ALF Regulation and Liability
- Change of Ownership Applications for Health Care Facility Licenses in Florida
- Avoiding AHCA & DOH Background Problems
- Crimes Barring Professionals from Working in Florida
- Received a NOID (Notice of Intent to Deny) in Florida? What to Expect
- Behavior Analysis Providers requires AHCA Clinic License
- Public Health Information: Covid-19 (Coronavirus)
- Yes, you need to file a Change of Ownership Application with AHCA!
- Student Loan Default: Can your professional health care license be suspended?
- Considerations for Health Care Association Executives on Hiring outside Counsel
- Background Screening Concerns: Exemption Applications with AHCA and DOH
- Florida Physical Therapists: Malpractice Can Cost You Your License
- Florida Health License Renewal: Preventing Common Problems
- Florida Nurses: Mistakes with Patients Can Harm Your License
- Florida Assisted Living Association 2017 Annual Conference & Tradeshow
- Medical Marijuana & Healthcare Professionals
Category: Announcement
- Announcing Our Newest Addition to the Legal Team: Jami M. Kimbrell
- It’s a New Morning on the Northeast Florida Coast! Howell, Buchan & Strong Opens New Office: JACKSONVILLE
- Welcoming Attorney, Lauren Strickland to Howell, Buchan & Strong
- Welcoming Associate Attorney, Wes Pope to Howell, Buchan & Strong
- We’ve Changed Our Name
- Howell, Buchan & Strong Orlando expansion!!
- Former DBPR Secretary Jonathan “Jon” Zachem Becomes Of Counsel to Howell, Buchan & Strong, Attorneys at Law
Category: Assisted Living Facilities
- Free Guide to Florida Law for Assisted Living Facilities
- My Florida Medical License Renewal Application Expired? Now What?
- Healthcare Professionals and the Winding Down of Covid-19
- Rickey Strong Guest Speaker on the Topic of Medical Marijuana at FALA Jacksonville
- FALA 2018
Category: Background Screenings
- New Background Screening Requirements for Florida Health Care Practitioners Starting July 1, 2025
- Background Screening: Exemption Applications with AHCA and DOH
- Avoiding AHCA & DOH Background Problems
- Applying for a Florida Medical Doctor License with a Criminal History
- The Impact of a DUI Arrest on Your Professional License
- Criminal Background | What My Next Employer Needs to Know
- Background Screening: Exemption Applications with AHCA and DOH
- How to Survive a Background Investigation
- Arrested? Your Medical License Is In Jeopardy
Category: Business Formation
- Challenges with Family Business Transition Planning
- Creating a Business or Company? We Can Help.
Category: Buy/Sell Agreements
- Buying a Healthcare Business? Top Warning Signs and Concerns: The Importance of Examining Financial Statements
- Buying a Healthcare Business? Top Warning Signs and Concerns: Buy-Sell Agreements
- Critical Steps for Investing in Healthcare Facilities
- HIPAA Issues to Consider When Buying a Healthcare Business
- Considering Selling or Buying a Healthcare Services Business?
- Considerations and Risks of Buying or Selling a Health Care Facility
- Representing Investors in Health Care Facility Buy and Sell Transactions
Category: Certified Public Accountant
- Applying for the CPA Exam with a Criminal Background
- When an Administrative Complaint is Filed Against Your Florida CPA License
- What happens if the Department of Business and Professional Regulation chooses to discipline my Certified Public Accountant license?
- Impacts of Fraud on CPA & Your License
- CPA Arrested in Florida? When to Self-report a Conviction
- CPA Mishaps: Ransoming Client Records
- Do you need additional time for completing the CPA CPE requirements?
- Need a Variance or Waiver from the 18-Month CPA Exam Requirement?
Category: Change of Ownership (CHOW)
- Buying a Healthcare Business? Top Warning Signs and Concerns: Issues with Changing Ownership
Category: Complaints & Investigations
- Why You Need an Experienced Health Care Attorney Against the Florida Department of Health
- What Every Florida Psychologist Should Know About Board Investigations and Legal Defense
- Understanding Florida Department of Health License Allegations
- Defending Your Florida Professional Healthcare License: A Comprehensive Guide
- Protecting Your Florida Healthcare License: Why Seek Experienced Legal Representation?
- Responding to a DOH Probe of Your Health Care License
- How to Survive After Receiving a Department of Business and Professional Regulation Complaint or Denial
- Informal Hearings Before the Department of Health: Your Decisions Matter
- Sexual Misconduct in the Therapist-Client Relationship, Part I | Sexual Misconduct Defined
- Informal Hearings Before the Department of Health: Your Decisions Matter
- Don’t Go Before Your Professional Board Without an Attorney!
- Medical Malpractice as Defined for Osteopathic License & How to Respond
- Impact of Overprescribing Oxycodone on your Osteopathic Physician’s License
- Five Tips for Appearing Before Florida’s Administrative Boards
- Investigation Letters and Your Construction Contractor License
Category: Contractors
- FTC’s Proposed Ban on Employee Noncompete Agreements
- How Criminal History Affects the Licensing Application Process for Contractors
- Electrical Contractors and Civil Judgements
- When a Recovery Fund Claim is Filed Against Your Contractor License
- Defensa de licencia professional: ¿Necesita asesoramiento de un abogado con experiencia en defensa de licencia en Tallahassee?
- Facing DBPR Administrative Complaint in Florida? Here’s What to Do.
Category: Contracts
- Addressing Conflicts of Interest in Physician and Nurse Practitioner Employment Contracts
- The Importance of Enterprise Employees to a Health Care Business
- What is a Non-Compete Clause in an Employment Contract?
- DIY Disasters of Writing Your Own Legal Contracts
Category: DBPR (Dept. of Business and Professional Regulation)
- Howell, Buchan & Strong and Your Veterinary Medicine Licensing Needs
- Howell, Buchan & Strong and Your Architecture and Interior Design Licensing Needs
- Don’t Go Before Your Professional Board Without an Attorney!
- Dishonest Deals in Real Estate | The License Suspensions, Revocations, and Fines
- Failing to timely self-report offenses, convictions, or pleas could result in discipline by the DBPR
- A Crime Involving Moral Turpitude Could be Grounds for Disqualification by DBPR
- How “Crime of Moral Turpitude” is Defined
- Plea Deals: The Consequences for Your Professional License
- Department of Business and Professional Regulation issues an Administrative Filing Complaint Against Construction Licenses?
- Thinking of not disclosing a past arrest on your application? Think again!
- Is your Criminal Conviction related to the practice of Real Estate?
- Does Your Business Hold a License to Sell Beer and/or Wine to the Public for On-Premises Consumption?
- When Your Veterinary Clinic/Animal Hospital is Visited by a DBPR Inspector
- DBPR Real Estate License Defense: What Florida Realtors Should Know
- Florida Real Estate License Defense: What Agents & Brokers Need to Know
- Top Legal Questions about Florida Real Estate Commission (FREC)
- Florida Real Estate Brokers: Be Careful with Clients’ Money
- Florida Real Estate Brokers: Accused of False Advertising?
- Florida Real Estate Brokers: Have You Been Accused of Fraud or Misrepresentation?
- Florida Real Estate Brokers: Don’t Forget to Register!
- Florida Real Estate Brokers: Don’t Forget to (Place a) Sign!
- Florida Real Estate Brokers: Keep Your Records!
- Florida Real Estate Brokers Must Register Trade Names with Commission
- Florida Real Estate Sales Associates Must Act and Receive Payment in Employer’s Name
- Florida Real Estate Sales Associates Must Act Within Scope of License
- Accused of Practicing Real Estate Without License in Florida? You Need a Lawyer!
- Too much fun over the 4th of July? Florida Real Estate Brokers: Commit a Crime, Do Your Time, Lose Your License?
- Florida Real Estate Brokers: Dot Your I’s and T’s in Listing Agreements!
- Florida Real Estate Brokers: Be Careful with Fee-Sharing
- Need Help With Your Barber’s License Or Barbershop License? Let Us Help You Get and Keep Your Barber’s/Barbershop License
Category: Dentists
- New 2025 Legislation that May Affect Health Care Practices and Professionals in Florida
- What Happens After the Florida Department of Health Issues a License?
- The Florida Dental Laws and Rules Exam
- Nine out of 10 Dentists Recommend Lifetime Ban for Inadequate Recordkeeping
- Florida Dentists: Be Careful when You Delegate
- Florida Dentists: Accused of Fraud or Misrepresentation? Hire a Lawyer!
- Are you being investigated as a dentist for practicing or offering to practice beyond the scope permitted by law or your competence?
- Are you being investigated as a dentist for committing fraud, deceit, or misconduct in the practice of dentistry or dental hygiene?
- Florida Dentists: Accused of Fraud or Misrepresentation? Hire a Lawyer!
- Has the State of Florida, Department of Health issued you a Notice of Intent to Deny your license renewal application because you are currently listed on the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) List of Excluded Individuals and Entities?
- Florida Dentists: Be Careful when You Delegate
- Florida Dentists: Dental Malpractice Claims Jeopardize Your License
Category: Department of Health (DOH)
- The Importance of Job Offer When Applying for a Florida Medical License
- Fraud Alert: Protect Your Professional License from Scams
- Helpful Tips: Being Prepared for Your Appearance Before a Licensing Board
- Helpful Tips: Office Surgery Inspections
- Optical Establishments: Why You Might Need a License and How to Avoid Discipline
- Helpful Tips – Florida’s Office Surgery Registration and Inspection Program Updates
- Helpful Tip: National Practitioner Data Bank
- The New Requirements and Effects of Florida’s “Live Healthy” Initiative on Medical Doctors and Foreign Medical Graduates
- Navigating Office Surgery Rules in Florida: Proposed New Definition for Facilities
- Can an Office Surgery Registration be Disciplined? How it works and what to expect.
- Office Surgery Facilities: What are they and how are they regulated?
- Why Legal Representation Before the Board of Medicine Matters to Your Case
- Informal Hearings Before the Department of Health: Your Decisions Matter
- Sexual Misconduct in the Therapist-Client Relationship, Part II | Possible Penalties
- Top 3 Trouble Spots for Psychologists and Therapists
- Denial of an Application for a Florida Medical License
- How a Criminal Arrest in Another State Impacts My Health Care License
- Extraterritorial Jurisdiction and Multi-state Medical Licenses
- Physician Assistants Moving To Florida Disclose License Discipline in Other States
- Think Before You Ink: Signing a Voluntary Relinquishment Not Always Advantageous
- How to Survive After Receiving a Department of Health Complaint or Denial
- Unlicensed Activity and Criminal Prosecution in Healthcare
- DOH Investigative Letters and APRNs
- New Rules for Florida’s Newly Enacted Autonomous APRN Law
- Two Florida Medical Boards Tackle Standard of Care Rules for Medical Marijuana
- Healthcare License Application Misrepresentation of Information
- Florida Physicians & Medical Residents: Accused of Fraud or Misrepresentation?
- Your Florida Medical License: Practicing Medicine in Florida
- Florida Physical Therapists: Malpractice Can Cost You Your License
- Florida Pharmacists: Label Carefully
- Florida License Defense: What Physicians and Nurses Need to Know
- New Minimum Standards of Physical Therapy Practice adopted 7/4/2017
- Summary of Medical Marijuana Legislation (Senate Bill 8-A)
- Nurse Cannot Argue Her Attorney Was Ineffective After Board of Nursing Revokes Her License
- Are you a doctor being investigated for prescribing legend drugs other than in the course of your professional practice?
Category: DOH
Category: Durable Medical Equipment (DME)
Category: Exemptions from Disqualification
- Important Update on AHCA and Exemptions from Disqualification
- Criminal Arrest and the Effect on Your Florida Healthcare License
Category: FDUTPA
- Served an FDUTPA Subpoena? Now What?
Category: Florida Real Estate Commission
- Pre-Licensing Requirements for Real Estate Agents, Brokers, and Salespersons
- Failure to Disclose a Past Arrest on your Real Estate Application!
- Navigating a Complaint Against your Real Estate License
- Common Complaints Against Florida Real Estate Agents
- How Florida Realtors Challenge FREC Administrative Complaints
- Too much holiday partying? Florida Real Estate Brokers: Commit a Crime, Do Your Time, Lose Your License?
- Florida Real Estate Brokers: Make Sure You Hire Licensed Sales Associates
- Florida Real Estate Brokers: If Disciplined, You Could Be Punished Twice?
- Florida Real Estate Brokers: Commit a Crime, Do Your Time, Lose Your License?
Category: Health Care Facilities
- Designated Physicians for OSRs: What is it and how do you qualify?
- Healthcare Facility Licensing – Why You Need a Legal Team
- Facilities’ Medicaid Reimbursement: Hope After an AHCA Audit
- Effective Face Coverings; Hillsborough Mandate
- Visitor Restriction Emergency Order Remains in Place
- Healthcare Facility Regulation & License Defense in Florida
- Healthcare Facility Regulation & License Defense in Florida
Category: Health Care Laws
- Florida’s New Health Law Opens Licensing Pathway for Physicians with NPDB Reports
- Florida Legislators Consider New Regulations for Office Surgeries
- Understanding Kickbacks or Fee-Splitting in Healthcare
- Telemedicine Pitfalls for Providers
- Violence in the Healthcare Workplace Series | Prevention and Reporting
- Firm Presents to Hillsborough County Bar Association on Criminal Law and Healthcare
- Anti-Kickback: Avoiding the Legal Troubles of Marketing Your Health Care Facility
- Florida’s Workers Compensation Law COVID-19 – Health Care
- Do not violate Patient Rights!!
- Florida’s COVID-19 Data and Surveillance Dashboard
- Electrology: Malpractice
- Electrology: Employing an Unlicensed Person
- Florida Physical Therapists: Sexual Misconduct
- Florida Physical Therapists: Stick to What You Know
- Florida Physical Therapists: Sexual Misconduct
- Florida Physicians: Keep Good Records!
- Florida Physicians and Residents: Be Careful when You Delegate
Category: HIPAA
- Florida Regulatory Laws Health Care Investors Must Know
- Contact Tracing | HIPAA Amid COVID
- FIPA & HIPAA | How They Differ & Why It Matters
Category: Insurance Agents and Adjuster License
- Are you applying for a Florida insurance license with a criminal history? Important changes to Florida law could impact your application.
- “Crime of Moral Turpitude:” The Impact on Your Insurance License Application
Category: License Discipline
- How to Get a Florida Osteopathic Medical License
Category: Licensure
- Howell, Buchan & Strong and Your Professional Engineer Licensing Needs
- Understanding Aggravating and Mitigating Factors in Florida Board of Psychology Cases
Category: Medical Licensing
- Florida’s Live Healthy Plan | New Law for Physicians
- Applying for a Florida Medical Doctor License with a Malpractice History
- Obtaining Your Florida Medical License: Practicing Medicine in Florida
- Are You an Internationally Trained Physician and Want to Practice in Florida?
- What it Takes | Physicians Eligibility for a Florida Medical License
- Applying for a Florida Medical Doctor License with Prior Discipline
- Plea Deals: The Consequences for Your Health Care License
- Violence in the Healthcare Workplace
- Florida Physicians and Residents: Medical Malpractice Claims Jeopardize Your License
- Are You an Internationally Trained Physician and Want to Practice in Florida?
- Is Telehealth the New Normal?
- License In Review is NOT License Expired
- Welcome to Florida! Practice medicine in the sunshine
- State of Florida Medical Boards and Medical Professional Licenses
- Defending your Florida License: What Physicians and Nurses Need to Know
- Florida Physicians and Residents: Accused of Fraud or Misrepresentation? Hire a Lawyer!
- Are you being investigated as a doctor for being unable to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety?
- Are you being investigated as a doctor for aiding an unlicensed person to practice a health profession?
- Are you being investigated as a doctor for having disciplinary action against you in another jurisdiction?
- Are you a doctor being investigated for failing to perform statutory or legal obligations?
- Are you being investigated as a respiratory therapist for failing to keep written respiratory care records justifying the reason for the action taken by you?
Category: Nursing
- Law Firm Scholarship Goes to Florida State University Nursing Student Emily Childs!
- Why Legal Representation Before the Board of Nursing Matters to Your Case
- Does the Nurse Licensure Compact Apply to APRNs?
- Howell, Buchan & Strong Awards Three Spring 2022 Nursing Scholarships
- Risks of Failing to Comply with DOH Subpoena
- The Autonomous APRN Standard of Care in Florida
- Nurse Licensure Compact and the Nursing Multistate License Upgrade | How Does It Work?
- Law Firm Scholarship Goes to Florida State University Nursing Student Alyssa Howard!
- Congratulations to Tyler, Our Scholarship Winner
- Medical Marijuana | What Florida Nurses Should Know
- Former U.S. Military Medic; Now Nursing Student Assists Howell, Buchan & Strong Clients
- Happy Nurses Week
- Nursing Licenses: Failure to Report
- Nursing License: Failure to Inform
- Florida Nursing Law: Not Maintaining Continuing Education
- NURSING LAW: Not Practicing with Reasonable Skill and Safety in Florida
- The Florida Board of Nursing Can Discipline You for Violations in Another State!
- Florida Nurses: Substandard Care Will Jeopardize Your License
- Florida Nurses: Mistakes with Patients Can Harm Your License
- Florida License Defense:What Physicians and Nurses Need to Know
- Florida Nurses: Substandard Care Will Jeopardize Your License
- Are you being investigated as a nurse for being abusive toward a patient?
- Are you being investigated as a nurse for failing to comply with education requirements?
- Are you being investigated as a nurse for wrongly delegating duties?
- Are you being investigated as a nurse for failing to provide patients with information on their rights to file complaints?
- Investigated as a nurse for having disciplinary action taken against your license in another state?
Category: Office Surgery Registration
- Designated Physicians: Responsibilities and Required Forms for Office Surgery Facilities
- Florida Office Surgery Inspections. Are you prepared?
- Plastic Surgery in Office Surgery Facilities
- Personnel Required in an Office Surgery Facility
- Office Surgery Registration | Do I Really Need to Register My Office Surgery Facility?
- Florida Office Surgery Inspection: What Happens When Your Facility Fails?
- Crash Carts in Office-based Surgery Centers | Florida’s Requirements
- Navigating Florida’s Regulatory Maze: Office Surgery Registration Applicant Challenges
Category: Pharmacists
- Florida Pharmacists: Keep Your Records, Keep Your License
- Florida Pharmacists: Dispensing Drugs Without Prescription.
- Florida Pharmacists: Label Carefully
- Florida Pharmacists: Keep Your Records, Keep Your License
- Florida Pharmacists: Dispensing Drugs Without Prescription
Category: Psychologists
- Cleared to Care: What Florida Psychologists Need to Know About House Bill 975 and the New Background Screening Requirements
- Licensing Board Complaints 101: Defending Licensed Professionals in Florida, Focus on Psychologists
- Sexual Misconduct in the Psychologist-Client Relationship | Possible Penalties (Part 02)
- Sexual Misconduct in the Psychologist-Client Relationship
- Major Changes to Florida Psychology License Application Process
- How Discipline in Other States affects Florida Psychologists?
- “Failing to Meet Minimum Standards of Performance” | How it Impacts Your Psychology License
Category: Uncategorized
- What Information Are You Required in Your Entity’s BOI Report?
- Does the CTA Require Your Entity to File a BOI Report?
- Protecting Patient Privacy: Florida’s New Law Bans Offshore Storage of Health Records
- It’s a New Morning on the Northeast Florida Coast! Howell, Buchan & Strong Opens New Office: JACKSONVILLE
- Florida’s Unadopted Rules: Unveiling the Legal Maze and Empowering Change
- Why Hire Our Law Firm?
- Why Hire Our Law Firm?
- Considerations for Purchasing a Health Care Business
- Considerations for Purchasing a Healthcare Business
- Considerations when Purchasing a Healthcare Business
- Attention Medical Doctors: Medical Practice Laws & Rules
- “Unprofessional Conduct” as defined by the Florida Board of Nursing.
- What Florida Nurses Should Know Before Entering into a Plea Deal.
- Are you a Nurse Currently Facing Criminal Charges?
- Howell, Buchan & Strong Open 5th Office: Cape Coral/Ft. Myers
- Welcoming New Of Counsel Attorney, John Terrel
- Welcome Natalie Patel to the Team!
- Wes Pope: Law Clerk With A Health Care Background
- Casey Campbell: Creative Anachronisms, Internet Research, Attention to Detail Are Key to Job.
- We’ve Changed Our Name
- Welcoming Liane LaBouef, Associate Attorney
- Researcher ready with helping hand when clients need it
- Clerk focuses on legal details, client service
- Economics grad speaks up for Howell Law Firm
- JEFFREY S. HOWELL P.A., Attorneys at Law Awards Three Healthcare Scholarships
- Orange County School Re-Opening Offering Face-to-Face and Virtual Learning
- Howell, Buchan & Strong, Attorneys at Law, Expands into Tampa Bay Area for Health Care Professionals
- Howell, Buchan, & Strong, Attorneys at Law Orlando expansion!!
- Florida Covid-19 Cases by ZIPCODE
- Virus Data for Florida
- New Year: New Website Look
- Howell, Buchan, & Strong, Attorneys at Law law firm broadens reach into Southwest Florida
- Electrology: License Discipline in Another Jurisdiction
- Former DBPR Secretary Jonathan “Jon” Zachem Becomes Of Counsel to Howell, Buchan & Strong, Attorneys at Law
- Attorney General Ashley Moody
- Jeffrey S. Howell, P.A. with offices in Tallahassee and Orlando
- It’s 2019 and We’re Now Howell, Buchan & Strong, Attorneys at Law
Category: Worker's Compensation

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