Satellite office limit

Definition

In Florida, a physician may supervise nurse practitioners or PAs at only one skin care office off site.

Why It Matters

The medical director term names who must hold the role. This says how far one holder stretches, and in Florida the answer is one satellite. Where nurse practitioners or physician assistants work at an office offering mainly dermatologic or aesthetic skin care, with no supervising physician on site, the supervising physician must be board certified or board eligible in dermatology or plastic surgery. That physician may supervise only one such office beyond the primary practice, within 25 miles of it or in a contiguous county. Each office must post when the physician is there and when it runs without one. The looser limits for primary care and specialty practices exclude skin care practices by name. So one qualifying physician covers a primary practice and one satellite, and every further site needs a physician on site or another dermatologist or plastic surgeon. Ask for the list of offices the director has filed with the board, because a group run off one license is a structure the buyer must rebuild.