FL S2722

Requires all privately owned pain-management clinics that advertise pain services or employ physicians primarily prescribing controlled substances to register with the Department of Health effective January 4, 2010, with exemptions for licensed facilities, surgical-focused clinics, large publicly-traded corporations, medical school affiliates, and nonprofit entities.

Mandates each clinic designate a responsible physician with an active license, denies registration to clinics not fully owned by physicians, and prohibits clinics with owners having revoked DEA numbers, denied prescribing licenses, or felony convictions for drug-related offenses.

Allows Department of Health to obtain patient records from pain-management clinics without authorization or subpoena if probable cause exists to believe violations occurred, and establishes $5,000 maximum administrative fines per violation with provisions for additional penalties.

Prohibits practitioners from dispensing more than 72-hour supplies of Schedule II or III controlled substances to cash-paying patients (excluding insurance copayments and workers' compensation), making violations a third-degree felony.

Creates registration requirements for both allopathic physicians (section 458.3265) and osteopathic physicians (section 459.0137), with identical provisions, annual inspections, mandatory physician notifications of employment terminations within 10 days, and 5-year bans for revoked clinic owners from reapplying.