Florida Statutes § 400.474

“Administrative penalties under the public health law”

A home health agency may face disciplinary sanctions for the following acts:

• Any intentional, reckless or negligent act that affects the health or safety of a patient;
• Provides remuneration to another home health agency with which it has formal or informal patient-referral transactions or arrangements;
• Preparing or maintaining fraudulent patient records;
• Failure to submit to the Agency for Health Care Administration for every quarter the number of patients receiving services from the home health agency, diabetic patients receiving insulin-injection services, and patients receiving services from the home health agency and hospice services;
• Gives cash to a Medicare or Medicaid beneficiary; and
• Demonstrates a pattern of billing the Medicaid program for services to Medicaid recipients which are medically unnecessary.