The Florida Senate

400.1415  Patient records; penalties for alteration.--

(1)  Any person who fraudulently alters, defaces, or falsifies any medical record or releases medical records for the purposes of solicitation or marketing the sale of goods or services absent a specific written release or authorization permitting utilization of patient information, or other nursing home record, or causes or procures any of these offenses to be committed, commits a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083

(2)  A conviction under subsection (1) is also grounds for restriction, suspension, or termination of license privileges.

History.--s. 5, ch. 93-217; s. 7, ch. 99-394; s. 11, ch. 2001-222; s. 142, ch. 2001-277.

Note.--Former s. 400.0231.