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9:00 AM, Board of County Commissioners, 20 N. Main St., Room 400,
Brooksville, FL 34601, Regular Meeting, ~ Agenda~, Tuesday, June 14, 2011,
Hernando County

There is no discrimination between good pain management or bad pain management physicians. It says specifically that all existing pain clinics will be targeted by this law and all clinics must pay a $3000 application fee. It includes a complete moratorium on any and all new management clinics and no existing pain management clinics can expand. It says that within 90 days of applying, all existing pain management clinics will be notified if they are approved to remain! There are no criteria that are described to explain how they will decide whether you are still a “good fit” for the neighborhood and location you currently occupy. As you know, with the new state law, if one’s location was not approved you would then be put out of business and be at square one trying to apply for a new state license and simultaneously waiting for Hernando County to approve your new county license. This is additional unnecessary bureaucracy and all pain management physicians must be concerned that any of us despite all our efforts to be compliant, could be arbitrarily determined by Hernando County to not fit in according to the new pain management clinic zoning ordinance. Two weeks ago, the governor just past under an additional 98 pages of legislation to control and regulate our specialty. There is no need for an additional 18 page County ordinance and we should all be united in preventing it!