Florida Board Actions (2021-2023)
Florida medical-board action counts from the FLDOH public annual report (2023). Rates use this board's own licensee denominator (not NPPES). FSMB national rollups are cited only for scale.
Last updated: May 2026
Florida's disciplinary counts come from the FLDOH annual report published at floridahealth.gov: 480 actions across 467 cases in 2023, against 75,000 active MD/DO licensees (6.40 per 1,000).
Florida Department of Health licensing reports are the source here; FLDOH is also the only board in this covered set that breaks out a monetary-fine action category alongside probation and surrender. Verify a Florida practitioner on the MQA services portal - annual-report fine totals do not map one-to-one onto a current MQA discipline flag.
Florida's 2023 FLDOH action mix is led by monetary fine (138, 29%), then probation (104), then voluntary surrender (82) - 324 of 480 actions (68% in the top 3). The report lists 467 distinct cases for those 480 actions (0.97 cases per action) against 75,000 MD/DO licensees - peer rates on their own denominators: Texas 4.47.
Where this state board sits among covered peers
Florida ranks 1st of 10 covered state boards by actions per 1,000 licensees (6.40 in 2023), with monetary fine the largest share at 29% of board actions. In the NPPES directory, developmental therapist is the most over-indexed specialty at 4.13× the national share (4,586 providers).
- 6.40
- actions / 1,000 licensees (2023)
- 1st
- of 10 covered boards by rate
- 480
- board actions in 2023
- 20.0%
- of covered-state action volume
This comparison uses the 2023 report only; 2022 rows do not carry the same action-type coverage, so no year-over-year claim is made.
Florida's 6.40 actions / 1,000 is above the covered-board median of 3.06; the next lower is Texas at 4.47. In 2023, monetary fine accounted for 138 of 480Florida board actions (29%).
What the FLDOH report categorizes
Florida's 2023 FLDOH report publishes 6 action categories (Monetary fine, Probation, Voluntary surrender, License suspension, Practice restriction, License revocation). Not broken out on this FLDOH report: public reprimand (see California's 2023 breakout). Rare in this corpus: monetary fine.
Distinguishing category on this page: Monetary fine (138 fines in 2023) .
Florida at a glance - 2023
Source: FLDOH Annual Report. Licensee counts reflect active MD/DO licenses on record at year-end.
Florida board actions by type (2023)
Share of this state's formal board actions - not a national mix
- Monetary fine
Monetary fine
138 actions
- Probation
Probation
104 actions
- Voluntary surrender
Voluntary surrender
82 actions
- suspension
License suspension
71 actions
- Practice restriction 47
Practice restriction
47 actions
- revocation 38
License revocation
38 actions
What this shows Monetary fine leads at 138 actions (29% of 480 total), ahead of probation.
Florida among nearby covered boards
Ranked by actions per 1,000 licensees among the 10 boards with ingested annual-report counts. Showing boards immediately around Florida (not the full covered list) so each state page carries a different peer window. Florida sits at 1st.
| # | State board | Actions / 1k | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Floridathis page | 6.40 | 480 |
| 2 | Texas | 4.47 | 344 |
| 3 | California | 3.84 | 576 |
Florida NPPES mix: Developmental Therapist
Among NPPES providers in Florida, Developmental Therapist is the most over-indexed specialty at 4.13× the national share (4,586 providers) ; next are Assistant Behavior Analyst (3.81×, 2,409), Behavior Technician (2.09×, 73,343), General Practice Physician (2.05×, 2,200). Most under-indexed: Marriage & Family Therapist at 0.43× . This is directory composition, not a board-action rate.
- Developmental Therapist - 4,586 providers (4.13× national share)
- Assistant Behavior Analyst - 2,409 providers (3.81× national share)
- Behavior Technician - 73,343 providers (2.09× national share)
- General Practice Physician - 2,200 providers (2.05× national share)
- Behavior Analyst - 11,147 providers (1.79× national share)
Florida year-over-year trend
| Year | Total actions | Licensees | Actions per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 480 | 75,000 | 6.40 |
| 2022 | 190 | 73,000 | 2.60 |
| 2021 | 86 | 72,000 | 1.19 |
Action-count totals across all canonical action types per year for Florida. Rate-per-1,000 normalizes for licensee population.
Florida 2023 - breakdown by action type
| Action type | Actions |
|---|---|
| Monetary fine | 138 |
| Probation | 104 |
| Voluntary surrender | 82 |
| License suspension | 71 |
| Practice restriction | 47 |
| License revocation | 38 |
Prior-year totals are in the trend table above; only the latest report year is expanded by action type.
Florida's 480 board actions in 2023 are 7.4% of the FSMB 2023 national action volume (6,444). Full national mix: state board action trends.
Aggregate Florida counts only, not an individual determination. Verify a clinician via the FLDOH public record or methodology for category definitions (Monetary fine, Probation, Voluntary surrender, License suspension, Practice restriction, License revocation).
Source: FLDOH - State Medical Board Annual Report Florida Medical Board Disciplinary Action Statistics, 2023 · 2023 Aggregate counts only. To verify any individual provider's current license status, query the state board's public license lookup directly.
More Florida context on PlainDoctor
Florida counts from FLDOH (2023); national context from FSMB U.S. Medical Regulatory Trends. Aggregate only - methodology · board lookup.